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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

HVUT Tax Form 2290 deadline – Mid Month Alert!

48-hours“According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That’s about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island” – Sheldon Whitehouse. Anyone in the Trucking Industry will sure accept to this. Along with the huge responsibility on the condition of the goods they carry on their heavy rigs because the loads that they transit are not their property but they take complete ownership of the timely delivery they also have to remember and take care of the taxes they owe.

Not only the goods they transit become their responsibility, but they have to take care of many things other than that as well. First comes the Vehicle itself, they have to maintain their vehicles and it should be in proper shape to hit the high ways. Trucker’s health, they have to be fit and fine to handle the load and the vehicle. Family Of course, which is the reason they work so hard and stay mostly on the road. Continue reading

Do’s & Don’ts When You Get Pulled Over !

Most of the drivers get nervous when they see the flashing lights of a police car on their rear view mirror. Of course, who would like to get pulled over when we are rushing towards our destiny? You like it or not it’s mandatory to show the officer that you are cooperating. The next second those lights come on, make sure that you are being observed and the way you react will decide whether you are going to end up in a problem or not. 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