Business Tax Deadline, questions owners ask

That is the ordinary start. The personal date is the one people almost text. The company may not share it. In 2026 a C corporation does share 15 April, and a partnership does not. The letter picks which sentence is yours.

Bring the letter, or say it is missing. We refuse to write an election the file does not contain just so the year looks neat.

Say so. A missing letter is a better fact than a confident guess. The company still has an election. It is written somewhere, at the IRS or in a drawer. The first month of work may be finding it, and that is real work.

Payday keeps a calendar of its own. The wage report follows the quarter and is due on the last day of the following month, and the deposits travel with the company already paying your people. We build the payroll file. We never run payday. If the worry is a deposit that never left, that company is the right next call, and we will say so in plain words.

Form 941 closes on the final day of the month that follows the quarter. The wage deposits that travel with it stay on the payroll company already running payday.

A 1099-C is not the company filing date. It is a letter about a debt that went away, and it may or may not be taxed. Publication 4681 has the worksheet. We do not run that worksheet on a public page, and we do not represent you before the IRS. We can still put the books in order so the question is visible.

File the return next. Do not wait for a perfect month, and do not pretend an open month is closed. The filing charge and the payment charge are different. A request to remove a penalty is a separate matter, and this practice does not stand in front of the IRS for you.

The picture of an open February is on its own page, and it is a sketch. Your figures stay off it.