Category Archives: Schedule-1 Copy

Form 2290 Rejected? These could be the reasons!

rejected_stamp“We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don’t. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success”- Henry Rollins. Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful. Accept it or not we all have faced rejections in our lives, be it personal or professional. Reasons and circumstances may vary but what makes you a great human being is how you react when you face a rejection.

First and foremost accept the fact that what you tired did not work and you have a temporary setback.  If rejected the next thing you should analyze is the reason for rejection, once you identified the reason for rejection try correcting it at the earliest possible. E-filing Federal Excise Tax Form 2290 is no exception to the thumb rule that, if furnished information does not meet the requirement then it leads to rejection.

Below is the list of possible rejections when you E-file your Federal Excise Tax Form 2290: Continue reading

Correct Your VIN Instantly by E-filing an Amendment through Tax2290.com!

MistakeWhen you have Vehicle identification numbers (VIN) of up to 17 characters with mixed numbers and letters, mistakes happen. For example, you type 5 instead of S. Let’s say that you file form 2290 and pay $550 to IRS and get your Schedule 1 you take it to the DMV or the Carrier, and then you realize that the Schedule 1 has the wrong VIN. What do you do?

Thanks to IRS and Tax2290.com, IRS introduced VIN correction using form 2290 in 2009, a couple of years after introducing E-filing for Form 2290. If you make a mistake in VIN, you can send an amended Form 2290 to IRS and get the Schedule 1 corrected. But the bad news was that VIN Correction on Form 2290 can’t be E-filed, it must be printed and mailed in. It took 4-6 weeks to get the corrected Schedule 1 from IRS. All this changed in 2011, when Tax2290.com, working with IRS, started to E-File VIN Corrections and was able to get the corrected Schedule 1 in minutes.  Continue reading

From 2290 due date falls right in between the Business & Personal Income taxes!

tax_stress“The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.”Rob Portman. No one would deny to the fact that we have a list of Taxes lined up starting March. It all begins with your Business Income taxes and goes on to your personal Income taxes. Are these the only two taxes that are due during March and April? No is the answer and a very BIG NO from the ever working Trucking Community.

Like every month your Federal Excise Tax Form 2290 (HVUT), is due by this Month end for vehicles that went into service last month for the first time since July 2016. To make it more clear, Any Heavy vehicle with a gross weight of 55,000 lbs or above, that was first used on road in the month of February 2017, since July 2016 is due for a Federal Excise Tax Form 2290 (HVUT) by March 31st 2017. Continue reading

Say no to Paper Filing Says, the IRS & Think Trade Inc!

TaxesFew years back, The Internal Revenue Service announced that they will not be mailing Form 2290 Package to Federal Excise tax Form 2290 taxpayers. This initiative was taken to encourage electronic filing (E-filing). Although the IRS has mandated Trucking Companies with 25 or more Heavy Vehicles to e-file, the IRS actively encourages everyone Trucker to file the Form 2290 electronically. The IRS has legitimate reason to do this because filing electronically is the quickest, easiest, and safest way to file tax returns.

Fortunately, it has become incredibly easy to Efile Form 2290 or other Tax forms associated with the Heavy Vehicle Use Tax (HVUT) such as Form 8849 Schedule 6. All you have to do is log on to www.Tax2290.com and start filing. You can file your for Form 2290, 2290 Amendments, Form 8849, Form 720, and Prepare your Fuel Tax report (IFTA) through www.taxexcise.com. Continue reading

Decoding IRS Tax Jargon – “Suspended Vehicles”

TaxesIRS tax Jargon’s are pretty complicated to decode, today let’s throw some light on the term “SUSPENDED VEHICLES”.  Taxpayers mostly get confused with the term Suspended vehicle, reason is very simple as per their understanding they think it means any vehicle that they take out of service is defined as suspended vehicle. That’s absolutely incorrect. So what does it mean?…

SUSPENDED VEHICLE: As per the IRS the term Suspended vehicle means, vehicles that are suspended from taxes in other words tax exempt vehicles. Any heavy vehicle with a gross weight of 55,000 pounds or above needs a Form 2290 filed for it by its respective owner. But the IRS has defined some distance speculations to determine whether the vehicle is taxable or Suspended (Tax Exempt). Continue reading