Fillable Printable Form 944

What is a Form 944 ?

Form 944, formally titled as Employer's Annual Federal Tax Return, is required to be filed with the Internal Revenue Service only once a year instead of every quarter from the year of 2007. According to the IRS, it is used for one who has the annual liability for social security, medicare, and withheld federal income taxes is $1,000 or less. Use HandyPDF service to download blank or edit and sign fillable Form 944 online.

Fillable Printable Form 944

What is a Form 944 ?

Form 944

Form 944 for 2016:

Employer’s ANNUAL Federal Tax Return

Department of the Treasury — Internal Revenue Service

OMB No. 1545-2007

Who Must File Form 944

You must file annual Form 944

instead of filing quarterly Forms 941

only if the IRS notified you in

writing.

Instructions and prior-year forms are

available at www.irs.gov/form944.

Employer identification number (EIN)

—

Name (not your trade name)

Trade name (if any)

Address

Number Street Suite or room number

City State

ZIP code

Foreign country name

Foreign province/county

Foreign postal code

Read the separate instructions before you complete Form 944. Type or print within the boxes.

Part 1:

Answer these questions for this year. Employers in American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern

Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico can skip lines 1 and 2.

1 Wages, tips, and other compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 Federal income tax withheld from wages, tips, and other compensation . . . . . . 2

3 If no wages, tips, and other compensation are subject to social security or Medicare tax 3 Check and go to line 5.

4 Taxable social security and Medicare wages and tips:

Column 1 Column 2

4a Taxable social security wages

× 0.124 =

4b Taxable social security tips

× 0.124 =

Taxable Medicare wages & tips

× 0.029 =

Taxable wages & tips subject

to Additional Medicare Tax

withholding . . . . . .

× 0.009 =

4e Add Column 2 from lines 4a, 4b, 4c, and 4d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4e

5 Total taxes before adjustments. Add lines 2 and 4e . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

6 Current year’s adjustments (see instructions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

7 Total taxes after adjustments. Combine lines 5 and 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Total deposits for this year, including overpayment applied from a prior year and

overpayments applied from Form 944-X, 944-X (SP), 941-X, or 941-X (PR) . . . . . . 8

9a Reserved

9b Reserved

10 Reserved

11 Balance due. If line 7 is more than line 8, enter the difference and see instructions . . . . 11

Overpayment. If line 8 is more than line 7, enter the difference

Check one:

Apply to next return. Send a refund.

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You MUST complete both pages of Form 944 and SIGN it.

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For Privacy Act and Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see the back of the Payment Voucher.

Cat. No. 39316N

Form

944 (2016)

Name (not your trade name) Employer identification number (EIN)

Part 2: Tell us about your deposit schedule and tax liability for this year.

13 Check one: Line 7 is less than $2,500. Go to Part 3.

Line 7 is $2,500 or more. Enter your tax liability for each month. If you are a semiweekly depositor or you accumulate

$100,000 or more of liability on any day during a deposit period, you must complete Form 945-A instead of the boxes below.

13a

Jan.

13b

Feb.

13c

Mar.

13d

Apr.

13e

May

13f

Jun.

13g

Jul.

13h

Aug.

13i

Sep.

13j

Oct.

13k

Nov.

13l

Dec.

Total liability for year. Add lines 13a through 13l. Total must equal line 7. 13m

Tell us about your business. If question 14 does NOT apply to your business, leave it blank.Part 3:

14 If your business has closed or you stopped paying wages...

Check here and enter the final date you paid wages.

May we speak with your third-party designee?Part 4:

Do you want to allow an employee, a paid tax preparer, or another person to discuss this return with the IRS? See the instructions

for details.

Yes. Designee’s name and phone number

Select a 5-digit Personal Identification Number (PIN) to use when talking to IRS.

No.

Sign Here. You MUST complete both pages of Form 944 and SIGN it.Part 5:

Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this return, including accompanying schedules and statements, and to the best of my knowledge

and belief, it is true, correct, and complete. Declaration of preparer (other than taxpayer) is based on all information of which preparer has any knowledge.

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Sign your

name here

Date

Print your

name here

Print your

title here

Best daytime phone

Paid Preparer Use Only

Check if you are self-employed

Preparer’s name

PTIN

Preparer’s signature

Date

Firm’s name (or yours

if self-employed)

EIN

Address Phone

City State

ZIP code

Page 2 Form 944 (2016)

Form 944-V,

Payment Voucher

Purpose of Form

Complete Form 944-V if you’re making a payment with

Form 944. We will use the completed voucher to credit

your payment more promptly and accurately, and to

improve our service to you.

Making Payments With Form 944

To avoid a penalty, make your payment with your 2016

Form 944 only if one of the following applies.

• Your net taxes for the year (Form 944, line 7) are less

than $2,500 and you are paying in full with a timely filed

return.

• You already deposited the taxes you owed for the first,

second, and third quarters of 2016, and the tax you owe

for the fourth quarter of 2016 is less than $2,500, and

you’re paying, in full, the tax you owe for the fourth

quarter of 2016 with a timely filed return.

• Your net taxes for the third quarter are $2,500 or more,

net taxes for the fourth quarter are less than $2,500, and

you didn’t incur a $100,000 next-day deposit obligation

during the fourth quarter.

• You’re a monthly schedule depositor making a payment

in accordance with the Accuracy of Deposits Rule. See

section 11 of Pub. 15, section 8 of Pub. 80, or section 11

of Pub. 179 for details. In this case, the amount of your

payment may be $2,500 or more.

Otherwise, you must make deposits by electronic funds

transfer. See section 11 of Pub. 15, section 8 of Pub. 80,

or section 11 of Pub. 179 for deposit instructions. Don’t

use Form 944-V to make federal tax deposits.

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CAUTION

Use Form 944-V when making any payment with

Form 944. However, if you pay an amount with

Form 944 that should’ve been deposited, you

may be subject to a penalty. See section 11 of

Pub. 15, section 8 of Pub. 80, or section 11 of Pub. 179

for details.

Specific Instructions

Box 1—Employer identification number (EIN). If you

don’t have an EIN, you may apply for one online. Go to

IRS.gov and type “EIN” in the search box. You may also

apply for an EIN by faxing or mailing Form SS-4 to the

IRS. If you haven’t received your EIN by the due date of

Form 944, write “Applied For” and the date you applied in

this entry space.

Box 2—Amount paid. Enter the amount paid with Form

944.

Box 3—Name and address. Enter your name and

address as shown on Form 944.

• Enclose your check or money order made payable to

“United States Treasury” and write your EIN, “Form 944,”

and “2016” on your check or money order. Don’t send

cash. Don’t staple Form 944-V or your payment to Form

944 (or to each other).

• Detach Form 944-V and send it with your payment and

Form 944 to the address provided in the Instructions for

Form 944.

Note: You must also complete the entity information

above Part 1 on Form 944.

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Detach Here and Mail With Your Payment and Form 944.

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Form

944-V

Department of the Treasury

Internal Revenue Service

Payment Voucher

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Don’t staple this voucher or your payment to Form 944.

OMB No. 1545-2007

2016

1 Enter your employer identification

number (EIN).

Enter the amount of your payment.

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Make your check or money order payable to “United States Treasury”

Dollars Cents

3 Enter your business name (individual name if sole proprietor).

Enter your address.

Enter your city, state, and ZIP code or your city, foreign country name, foreign province/county, and foreign postal code.

Form 944 (2016)

Privacy Act and Paperwork Reduction Act Notice.

We ask for the information on this form to carry out the

Internal Revenue laws of the United States. We need it to

figure and collect the right amount of tax. Subtitle C,

Employment Taxes, of the Internal Revenue Code

imposes employment taxes on wages and provides for

income tax withholding. This form is used to determine

the amount of the taxes that you owe. Section 6011

requires you to provide the requested information if the

tax is applicable to you. Section 6109 requires you to

provide your identification number. If you fail to provide

this information in a timely manner, or provide false or

fraudulent information, you may be subject to penalties.

You’re not required to provide the information

requested on a form that is subject to the Paperwork

Reduction Act unless the form displays a valid OMB

control number. Books and records relating to a form or

instructions must be retained as long as their contents

may become material in the administration of any Internal

Revenue law.

Generally, tax returns and return information are

confidential, as required by section 6103. However,

section 6103 allows or requires the IRS to disclose or give

the information shown on your tax return to others as

described in the Code. For example, we may disclose

your tax information to the Department of Justice for civil

and criminal litigation, and to cities, states, the District of

Columbia, and U.S. commonwealths and possessions for

use in administering their tax laws. We may also disclose

this information to other countries under a tax treaty, to

federal and state agencies to enforce federal nontax

criminal laws, or to federal law enforcement and

intelligence agencies to combat terrorism.

The time needed to complete and file Form 944 will

vary depending on individual circumstances. The

estimated average time is:

Recordkeeping . . . . . . . . . . 13 hr., 9 min.

Learning about the law or the form . . . . 40 min.

Preparing, copying, assembling, and

sending the form to the IRS . . . . . . 2 hr., 6 min.

If you have comments concerning the accuracy of

these time estimates or suggestions for making Form 944

simpler, we would be happy to hear from you. You can

send us comments from www.irs.gov/formspubs. Click on

More Information and then click on Give us feedback.

Or you can send your comments to Internal Revenue

Service, Tax Forms and Publications Division, 1111

Constitution Ave. NW, IR-6526, Washington, DC 20224.

Don’t send Form 944 to this address. Instead see Where

Should You File? in the Instructions for Form 944.