PaunchyPirate
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Some of you may have seen a post I made on another thread about how my EFTSP login appears to gone away. I have gone thru the process to request access again, but am waiting the US Mail letter that sends your PIN.
In the meantime, I decided I wanted to make a Estimated Tax payment for 2023 since it appears my income will be a tad higher than I was expecting due to all this wonderful bond interest, brokage bonuses, etc. that I have received this year. I was planning on using IRS Direct Pay.
I decided that I would sign into my IRS.gov account (via ID.me authentication) just to make sure everything looked good there before I made the estimated payment.
I happened to notice that there was a "Make a Payment" button which I assumed was for payment plans and maybe delinquent payments. But lo-and-behold, it also had an option for Estimated Payments. I went thru the process and it let me make an estimated tax payment for 2023 from my checking account. You can do this with a credit card too, but it says that will link to an external site, so I assume it charges a fee to do this. The process worked fine. It gave me all the normal tracking numbers you would expect so you can prove it was paid.
Also, after paying it, I looked and found "Payment Activity" on the site and can see my new payment as Pending. But also, there is a view into all my past payments for previous years. I can see payments I made with filed returns as well as EFTPS payments made for estimated payments thru the years (back to 2019 when I started using EFTPS).
It does NOT let you set up scheduled payments for future dates. It refers you to the IRS Direct Pay website for that.
I really don't see a need for me to use EFTPS any longer. I never set my payments up in advance. This seems to help with one-stop-shopping for my IRS account.
I THINK, this is all new. I don't recall seeing this ability on my account in the past. Or did I just never see it?
In the meantime, I decided I wanted to make a Estimated Tax payment for 2023 since it appears my income will be a tad higher than I was expecting due to all this wonderful bond interest, brokage bonuses, etc. that I have received this year. I was planning on using IRS Direct Pay.
I decided that I would sign into my IRS.gov account (via ID.me authentication) just to make sure everything looked good there before I made the estimated payment.
I happened to notice that there was a "Make a Payment" button which I assumed was for payment plans and maybe delinquent payments. But lo-and-behold, it also had an option for Estimated Payments. I went thru the process and it let me make an estimated tax payment for 2023 from my checking account. You can do this with a credit card too, but it says that will link to an external site, so I assume it charges a fee to do this. The process worked fine. It gave me all the normal tracking numbers you would expect so you can prove it was paid.
Also, after paying it, I looked and found "Payment Activity" on the site and can see my new payment as Pending. But also, there is a view into all my past payments for previous years. I can see payments I made with filed returns as well as EFTPS payments made for estimated payments thru the years (back to 2019 when I started using EFTPS).
It does NOT let you set up scheduled payments for future dates. It refers you to the IRS Direct Pay website for that.
I really don't see a need for me to use EFTPS any longer. I never set my payments up in advance. This seems to help with one-stop-shopping for my IRS account.
I THINK, this is all new. I don't recall seeing this ability on my account in the past. Or did I just never see it?
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