{"id":585,"date":"2012-07-20T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/form2290\/taxform2290\/post\/2012\/07\/20\/E-Filing-for-the-Month-of-First-Use.aspx"},"modified":"2024-07-01T07:21:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:21:33","slug":"submit-e-file-form-2290-for-the-month-of-vehicle-first-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/blog\/submit-e-file-form-2290-for-the-month-of-vehicle-first-use\/","title":{"rendered":"E-File a Form 2290 Submission for the Month of First Use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/efile-2290-form\/hvut\/why-should-you-pay-heavy-vehicle-use-tax\">Heavy vehicles<\/a> are typically in and out of service whether it is because a truck is bought, sold, or going through maintenance. The Internal Revenue Service understands that vehicles are not always in use and has accounted for that by allowing truck owners\/operators to e-file Form 2290 based on the \u201cMonth of First Use.\u201d This phrase is merely asking when a truck owner first puts their heavy vehicle onto the road to start making cross-country deliveries. This is quite beneficial to those who must <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/efile-2290-form\/\">e-file Form 2290<\/a> because the total tax amount due is reduced as the year progresses, which is a pretty accurate method of calculating the correct tax amount due for any given taxpayer.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Although the Internal Revenue Service allows filers to file their Form 2290 in the month that their vehicle was first in use, they have enacted harsh financial penalties to those who miss their filing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/efile-2290-form\/hvut\/irs-form-2290-due-date\">2290 deadline<\/a>. So the \u201cMonth of First Use\u201d feature works both ways, it can only be advantageous to a truck owner\/operator if they file their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/efile-2290-form\/form-2290\">Form 2290<\/a> in a timely fashion or at least file for an extension for their filing.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The IRS provides a month-based timetable for filers to review so that they know when they must file Form 2290 by-<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">If the vehicle is first used during -> THEN make sure to file Form 2290 &amp; make your payment by<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">July <span style=\"white-space: pre;\">-> <\/span>August 31, <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">August ->\u00a0September 30<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">September,<span style=\"white-space: pre;\">-> <\/span>October 31<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">October<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> -> <\/span>November 30<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">November<span style=\"white-space: pre;\">-> <\/span>December 31<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">December<span style=\"white-space: pre;\">-> <\/span>January 31, <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">January<span style=\"white-space: pre;\">-> <\/span>February 28<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">February-> March 31<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">March-> April 30<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">April<span style=\"white-space: pre;\">-> <\/span>May 31<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">May<span style=\"white-space: pre;\">-> <\/span>June 30<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">June <span style=\"white-space: pre;\">-> <\/span>July 31<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Keeping up to date with filing submission deadlines is pivotal in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/efile-2290-form\/form-2290\/irs-hvut-penalties\">avoiding financial penalties<\/a> from the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS loves to make money off of taxpayers\u2019 mistakes; therefore, if taxpayers pay attention to their deadlines they will not be at a disadvantage and could actually SAVE money if they accurately e-file their submissions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/account.tax2efile.com\/Account\/Registration\/?from=Tax2efile#!\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Register to E-file Your IRS Form 2290 Today<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy vehicles are typically in and out of service whether it is because a truck is bought, sold, or going through maintenance. The Internal Revenue Service understands that vehicles are not always in use and has accounted for that by allowing truck owners\/operators to e-file Form 2290 based on the \u201cMonth of First Use.\u201d This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-file-2290"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tax2efile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}