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New Form 944 allows employers to file a single return rather than four per year. Most employers can make a single payment with their return unless they are required to make deposits. The New Form is available for calendar year 2006 with the First Return Due January 31, 2007.
New Form 944 allows employers to file a single return rather than four per year. Most employers can make a single payment with their return unless they are required to make deposits. The New Form is available for calendar year 2006 with the First Return Due January 31, 2007.
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New Form 944 allows employers to file a single return rather than four per year. Most employers can make a single payment with their return unless they are required to make deposits. The New Form is available for calendar year 2006 with the First Return Due January 31, 2007.
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Form 944 Annual Consider it Done! Employer’s Annual Filing Program Federal Tax Return
For more information: New Form 944 for 2006
The latest Form 944 is available on Putting YOUR Ideas to Work! Employers can file a IRS.gov at: single return rather than http://www.irs.gov/businesses/ four per year. small/article/0,,id=146224,00.html.
The instructions will be available in
the near future at www.IRS.gov. Annual Employment Tax Filing for Small Employers Most employers can Comments on the Form 944 Annual First Return Due January 31, 2007 make a single payment Filing Program can be sent to the IRS at: Form944Program@irs.gov with their return unless they are required to make deposits. File Just One, Consider it Done!
IRS Pub. 4515 (1-2006)
Cat. No. 47949Q New Form 944 Program Overview File Just One, Consider it Done!
Objective of New Form 944 Annual Filing/Paying Requirements Special Circumstances
• To reduce burden on the smallest of • Identified employers must file Form • Designated 944 filers who believe small business taxpayers by allowing 944, Employer’s Annual Federal Tax their business will grow to a total certain employers to file one Employment Return, by January 31 each year for the annual tax liability of more than Tax (ET) return per year, as well as pay the preceding calendar year’s tax liability. $1,000 or those who want to ET due with the return. Form 944 filers will not file any Forms electronically file Forms 941, should 941 for that year. contact the IRS no later than Implementation of New Form 944 • Form 944 filers can pay their total ET April 1, 2006 to be reestablished as • The new Form 944 is available for liability by January 31 each year, unless a Form 941 filer for calendar year calendar year 2006 with the first return they are required to make Federal Tax 2006. due January 31, 2007. Deposits (FTDs). • Form 944 does not apply to • Employers whose businesses grow Schedule H or Form 943 filers. Annual Filing Eligibility during the year and whose tax liability • Who’s eligible? Those employers whom is $2,500 or more, will need to make Benefits of the Form 944 Annual the IRS notifies in writing are to file Form FTDs in accordance with the deposit Filing Program 944. Letters will be mailed around rules to avoid FTD penalties.They will This filing program offers small February 1, 2006 to eligible Form 944 file the Form 944 for the year. employers significant burden filers. reduction: • Who might qualify to receive notification • Employers can file a single return to file Form 944? Those small employers Events Making the Employer Ineligible rather than four per year and whose total annual ET liability is $1,000 for Annual Filing in a Subsequent Year most can pay with their return unless or less. • Employer exceeds the threshold they are required to make deposits. • What about new employers? Beginning amount of $1,000 total ET liability for in January 2006, new employers who the year. have a total annual ET liability of $1,000 or less (approximately $4,000 or less in Note: Employers will be sent a notice annual wages) can indicate so on Form advising them of the change to a Form SS-4 when applying for EINs. The IRS will 941 quarterly filing requirement. advise the employer of their filing require- ment in the notice assigning their EIN.