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.

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!

Anonymous wrote:Who mails their taxes anymore? This is the 21st century.

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I use Priority Mail.

Our taxes are so complex (50+ pages) that we can't e-file. Some of the forms we have to file aren't eliigible for it.

Huh? I know some can’t file online but it isn’t due to the number of pages. Ours are huge and multiple. This year, I’m filing 8 returns excluding my state returns. Some are hundreds of pages. All are filed online.

Form 5471 can't be filed online. Information Return of U.S. Persons With Respect To Certain Foreign Corporations

Anonymous wrote:If you had a large payment to make (more than $50k), would you mail that reg mail?

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.

If you had a large payment to make (more than $50k), would you mail that reg mail?

I mail my estimated payments regular mail. Our returns (complicated and 144 pages) are efiled. 3 state returns are efiled too.

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.

Stupid Maryland does not accept electronic filing of firms with OID interest so mailed that one

Anonymous wrote:Yes, always just regular first class mail.

Same here. Regular mail, never had an issue.

Fed online. I mail Maryland. Doesn't Maryland charge if you submit online? I'm not paying that...

Online.