| Online. |
| Fed online. I mail Maryland. Doesn't Maryland charge if you submit online? I'm not paying that... |
Same here. Regular mail, never had an issue. |
| Stupid Maryland does not accept electronic filing of firms with OID interest so mailed that one |
| We file some online and mail some certified mail. Our accountant always tells us which ones we have to do which way. I will take his advice over DCUM. Not everyone’s taxes are the same. I mail our estimated tax payments quarterly. Many states don’t take them online. |
| I mail my estimated payments regular mail. Our returns (complicated and 144 pages) are efiled. 3 state returns are efiled too. |
| If you had a large payment to make (more than $50k), would you mail that reg mail? |
NM—I thought the lines would be long. They weren’t. I went with certified. |
I do. My estimated payments are around $100k per quarter. I do need to go to the PO today to do certified mail for one return so might do certified for the estimated payments as well. |
Form 5471 can't be filed online. Information Return of U.S. Persons With Respect To Certain Foreign Corporations |
| I do my fed online, it's free via turbotax and just mail in my state. Usually I owe somewhere between $500-$2K. I just mail it regular mail and know that when they cash my check they got it. |
50k and 100k payments though are a lot more than that and having a check like that floating around and possibly lost is more worrisome. |
stop being an ASS HOLE! OP, I would send them certified with signature of recipient required. It will come with a tracking number so you can find out exactly when it's delivered. |
| I've always done it online but last year some weird stuff happened and I had to override a box on Turbotax to make it work right and then it wouldn't let me efile. Sent it certified mail. Haven't gotten my refund yet but I know it arrived. Sent the DC one the same way on the same day and already got the refund from that! |
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I do regular first-class mail if I owe money. When the check clears, i know that the IRS/state received my taxes.
If I am owned a refund, I do certified mail with a return receipt. There is no benefit to priority mail over first-class mail with respect to delivery time. Priority mail does come with tracking, for those who find it useful (I do not). I have no interest in filing electronically. As far as I know, it costs money to do so and increases the chances of an audit, neither of which benefits me. |