 internal revenue service IRS tax news IRS truckers need to file by August 31st deadline e-file encouraged hey IRS don't don't tell me I need to do stuff I don't need nothing man so possibly some tasty waves and a cool buzz just just kidding iris I need my money I'll file I'll file but first to the tip that a joke the Biden administration assures us they have the economy under control Biden saying he loves the American economy but every time he gets near it the economy reacts like it's been kissed by a porcupine part of the problem being Biden likes spending money because what you were trying to do was terrify us into spending more money than we have more than a pretzel likes dancing the twist now get out of here before the victim of violent crime in this house is you when asked about his economic plan Biden responded well I just throw stuff at the wall what's happening I'm throwing crap at a wall I know it won't stick but I'm satisfied if it just leaves a greasy sticky red stain a stain that would be dang near impossible to remove it would be impossible for him to remove them because I figure from a Keynesian perspective if I just cause enough damage it will eventually create jobs lift in the economy man haven't done enough damage already unfortunately I haven't been able to break stuff as fast as I would like in order to fix things IR 2022-146 August 8 2020 to Washington the Internal Revenue Service today is reminding those who have registered or are required to register large trucks and buses that it's time to file form 2290 heavy highway vehicle use tax return there's a link to that here the IRS strongly encourages using e-file and filing before the payment deadline of August 31st 2022 for vehicles first used in July 2022 and when the IRS says strongly encourages you kind of hear like an or else kind of thing you know clean clean your clean your room or else they'll they'll be held to pay I don't know exactly what that will be but it will be horrifying it's kind of that I think that's kind of what they're going for but any case truckers that have a highway motor vehicle with a taxable gross weight of 55,000 pounds or more registered in their name must file form 2290 and pay the tax however on vehicles they expect to use for 5,000 miles or less 7,500 for farm vehicles they're required to file a return but pay no tax if the vehicle exceeds the mileage use limit during the tax period the tax becomes due the filing deadline is not tied to the vehicle registration date taxpayers must file form 2290 by the last day of the month following the month in which the taxpayer first used the vehicle on a public highway during taxable period regardless of the vehicles registration renewal date vehicles first used on a public highway during the month of July 2022 must file form 2290 and pay the appropriate tax between July 1st and August 31st any additional taxable vehicles placed on the road during any month other than July should be prorated for the months during which it was in service IRS.gov IRS.gov IRS.gov has a table to help determine the filing deadline there's a link to that table here file and pay the easy way do it do it the easy way or the way the IRS kind of wants you to do it because they're trying to get less actual man and woman power over there and trying to automate everything so they would like some e-file activity happening so visit the truckers tax center on IRS.gov forward slash trucker there's a link to that here review the frequently asked questions for truckers who e-file also available in Spanish if you want to check it out in Espanyol use do I need to pay heavy highway vehicle use tax there's a link to that it's online if unsure about filing rather gather the required information so when you're going to file you need the you need the info to do so vehicle identification numbers obviously you got to have the employer identification of number otherwise known as the e-i-n so they know who the employer is not a social security number they want an e-i-n number if you're driving big trucks then you need it there they're looking e-i-n not just someone's social security so it can take about four weeks to establish a new e-i-n if you don't have one pretty pretty easy process even if you're like a sole proprietorship for example and you filed your tax returns using just your social security number and you don't have any employees you might think like like an employer identification number should be one in which you would have employees but you know necessarily need employees you know you can still get one so that you can give it to people who that are going to try to 1099 you for example or for uses such as this where the IRS wants to identify you by number of course you're not you're not a name don't don't you be thinking your name here you need it you need an appropriate number so you can see how to apply for an e-i-n here there's a link taxable gross weight of each vehicle so you need the taxable weight because that's going to determine you know your taxability as well filing options you got all form 2290 filers are encouraged to e-file a list of IRS approved e-vile providers is on irs.gov there's a link to that here e-file is required when reporting 25 or more vehicles on form 2290 so if you're doing that much stuff on the big vehicles then you've got to do the e-file option so a watermarked schedule one is sent within minutes after acceptance of an e-file return it's amazing the irs is so efficient now these days so if filing by mail ensure that the correct mailing address is used mail filers will receive their stamped schedule one within six weeks after the irs receives the form payment options you could use a credit or debit card or digital wallet is an option there's a link to that here e-file making makes paying with electronic funds withdrawal an easy part of the process so you could just electronically drain your bank account if you want to pay the iris that way electronic federal tax payment system there's a link to that here requires advanced enrollment so you got to do a little bit more pre-work on that get get rolled up and enrolled so mail checker money order payments using form 2290 v basically the voucher form it's a payment voucher mailed to internal revenue service p.o. box 9 3 2 5 0 Louisville Kentucky and you know you will have the address here so you can take a look at the address at the link so take a look at the link if you want to mail in the old payment the old fashion way and of course there's there's much more reading material down below so you can you can check this stuff out while you're driving the truck you can read this stuff I mean well probably probably not when you're driving but you know at the break or something you got the irs YouTube videos we got YouTube videos you might even be able to watch those if you got a screen like separate screen or something truckers mark your calendar to file form 2290 understanding form 2290 heavy highway vehicle use tax there's a link to that here frequently asked questions for Indian tribal governments regarding highway use tax there's a link to that irs form 2290 call center available weekdays between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Eastern time from within us there's a couple numbers that you can call here I will not say them here like five times like you used to hear at old commercials because we'll have a link to this in the description and you can check it out on your own if you so choose and there'll be a link to this in the description