tax center

Whether you’re an employer or an employee, it’s important to educate yourself about when to report and complete different forms so that you are properly complying with tax laws and reporting yourself accurately. Fortunately, Accounting-On-Us Services, Inc. is here to help you get that schedule just right.

tax calendar 2018

October 11

  • Employees who work for tips: If you received $20 or more in tips during September, then report them to employer using Form 4070.

October 17

  • Individuals who have an automatic 6-month extension to file income tax return for 2017: file Form 1040, 1040A, or 1040EZ and pay any tax, interest, and penalties due.
  • Electing Large Partnerships: file a 2017 calendar year return (Form 1065-B). This due date applies only if you were given an additional 6-month extension. See March 15 for the due date for furnishing the Schedules K-1 to the partners.
  • Employers who are nonpayroll withholding: if the monthly deposit rule applies, deposit the tax for payments in September.
  • Employers with Social Security, Medicare, and withheld income tax: if the monthly deposit rule applies, deposit the tax for payments in September.

October 31

  • Employers with Social Security, Medicare, and withheld income tax: file form 941 for the third quarter of 2018. Deposit any undeposited tax. (If your tax liability is less than $2,500, you can pay it in full in a timely filed return). If you deposited the tax for the quarter in full and on time, you have until November 10 to file the return.
  • Certain Small Employers: deposit any undeposited tax if your tax liability is $2,500 or more for 2018 but less than $2,500 for the third quarter.
  • Employers with Federal Unemployment Tax: deposit the tax owed through September if more than $500.

November 1

  • Employers with Income Tax Withholding: ask employees whose withholding allowances will be different in 2019 to fill out a new Form W-4.

November 10

  • Employers with Social Security, Medicare, and withheld income tax: file form 941 for the third quarter of 2018. This due date applies only if you deposited the tax for the quarter in full and on time.
  • Employees who work for tips. if you received $20 or more in tips during October, then report them to employer using Form 4070.

November 15

  • Employers with nonpayroll withholding: if the monthly deposit rule applies, deposit the tax for payments in October.
  • Employers with Social Security, Medicare, and withheld income tax: if the monthly deposit rule applies, deposit the tax for payments in October.