E-filing An Extension For Your Business Income Taxes

As a business person, your work schedule may be tight, and you may have to track some struggling financial records or other financial complications that make the tax filing impossible to do on time. The Internal Revenue Service hears your difficulties and provides an alternate arrangement by offering a business tax 7004 extension online.

Extension Form 7004 for Business Income Taxes

A business income tax extension is filed using Form 7004, depending on the type of business. Corporations and partnerships use the IRS 7004 Form for filing their business extensions, other businesses filing income taxes on Schedule C must use Form 4868. IRS Form 7004 extends 6 months of extra time to e-filing the business or corporation taxes. This extra 6 months of time gives the corporations to file the 1120 Form without any errors and saves them from the burden of paying late fees or penalties.

NOTE: Most business tax returns can be extended by filing Form 7004: Application for Automatic Extension of Time to File by the original due date of the return.

Due Dates for Corporations and Partnerships

•       If the business is organized as an S corporation then the income tax return or the extension is due by the 15^th day of the 3^rd month (March 15^th) after the end of your business tax year.
•       On the other hand, if the business is a C corporation then the extension is due on the 15^th day of the 4^th month (April 15^th) after the end of your tax year.
•       For instance, if the C Corporation is a calendar year taxpayer with a December 31^st, 2017, then the taxpayer must file a 2017 tax return or an extension request by April 18^th, 2017.
•       If the business is a partnership, the income tax return or extension is due by the 15^th day of the 3^rd month (March 15^th) after the end of your tax year.
•        For instance, if the partnership of your business is a calendar year taxpayer with a December 31^st, 2017, then the taxpayer must e-file a 7004 tax return or extension by March 15^th, 2017. 
•     For example, if a business needs a 6-month extension and its original filing deadline was March 15, its new filing deadline is September 15.

 

Caution on Tax Payments

Apart from filing Form 7004 extension, the tax payments must be made along with the tax extension so that the tax filer avoids the penalties and late fees from the IRS. If your business is an S Corporations that needs to file its corporate tax returns must make its payment along with Form 7004 in order to ensure that it saved from paying the late payment penalties, which will keep on accruing at a monthly rate of 0.5 % till the taxes are paid to the IRS. The maximum penalty, a taxpayer can reach is 25 %. Note that the tentative tax amount that is calculated on Form 7004 is 90 % or even more when compared with the income tax reported on the tax return file along with the outstanding amount that is paid by the extended filing deadline and the corporations are not charged late payment penalties.

Steps to File Form 7004 Electronically with IRS

• 1.  Efile your Form 7004 properly with us. Tax2efile assists you in e-file the 7004 Form throughout the process.
• 2.  Estimate your tax, if applicable. Tax2efile calculates the tax accurately.
• 3.  File Form 7004 before the due date of your tax return and get the 6-month extension from the IRS.

Following the above steps could avoid the penalties from the IRS. E-filing Form 7004 will give an automatic tax extension return of up to 6 months.
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