Monthly Archives: May 2014

Get Your Taxes Calculated At TaxIFTA In Minutes

Hello IFTA filers, we know there are no mere due dates coming up in your calendar, however we are just getting you prepared for the next quarter. We know how tedious it gets when it comes to calculations. If you are preparing IFTA return manually, you need to check on the fuel tax rate, calculate with miles and the gallons applicable for the jurisdiction and pay the dues to your base jurisdiction.

As mentioned above, the workload for an IFTA filer is sufficient to keep them running around, excluding their deliveries. We duly understand that preparing IFTA manually is a difficult and errors are welcomed and thus, TaxIFTA.com took the initiative and developed an application with inbuilt talent, which can automatically calculate your dues once the information is provided.

Well, if you have never considered online filing, then its high time you consider it and try it yourself for feature-rich experience. It would not only ease up your task and provide you with the IFTA PDF in minutes, but also reduce your workload and you can breathe ease.

Here’s a small example about how calculations takes place at TaxIFTA.com.

Assume, you are driving on the roads of South Dakota and fill your fuel tank with 100 gallons of Diesel and you are moving towards North Dakota. Once you touch the road of North Dakota, you are pumping around 200 gallons of Diesel in your rig. You get your deliveries completed and now you are required to travel through Kansas. You are pumping another 120 gallons of Diesel in your rig. So for now, you have traveled through 3 jurisdictions.

Presume, your registered base jurisdiction is Minnesota; you need to prepare your IFTA return and submit the same to your base jurisdiction by the due date. If you are late, you are supposed to file penalty for the same.

Each jurisdictions have their own fuel tax rate and when you’re preparing your IFTA return manually, you need to check on the rates, calculated based on the miles and gallons consumed in that jurisdictions. However, if you prepare your IFTA return online, you need to mention the tax year you are filing for and the quarter. Pick your base jurisdiction you are registered with, share your vehicle number, TGW and the jurisdictions you have traveled. The application would also ask you about the fuel type, gallons of fuel consumed with the miles covered in that jurisdiction.

 So, while preparing IFTA return, you should file taxes for South Dakota, North Dakota and Kansas based on the gallons of diesel you pumped in each jurisdiction and the miles covered. Also, include the other jurisdictions you are traveled during that quarter in your IFTA form.

Once you complete filing these details, your tax dues would be calculated and displayed in front of you in seconds. Almost like a wink of your eye.

When things can be this simple for you, why should you opt for preparing your return yourself. The information you provided to prepare IFTA would be imprinted on the form and converted into a PDF, which is all set to be filed to your base jurisdiction.

Oh wait this is not the end. Other than providing you with well-equipped website, we also serve our tax filers with handpicked Tax Experts to assist you with your queries and serve you the best. For support, call us at 1-866-245-3918 or write to us @ support@taxexcise.com. Join hands with IFTA, you will not regret.

Are You Looking For Clear Explanation On IFTA Jargons? We Will Help You (Part-II)

Welcome back filers. Few weeks back, we had posted a blog on IFTA Jargon’s, today; we would be posting the second part of the same. As we did not want to bore with the jargon’s, we divided the blog into two halves. Here’s the second one. Read, learn, refer and brush your knowledge here. Continue reading →

Time To Test Your IFTA Knowledge

IFTA, International Fuel Tax Agreement is an agreement between 48 lower states of the United States and Canadian provinces to simplify reporting fuel tax used by Motor carriers that are operating in one or more jurisdiction. Every IFTA filer should enclose an IFTA license and decal for each qualifying vehicle is operates for quarterly filing IFTA tax return, determining the net tax and refund through the form. However, today, we are going to check how familiar you are with IFTA. A part of your successful trucking company is dependent on your understanding of IFTA. Here’s the most common questions asked by the truck drivers about IFTA. Continue reading →

Obtain IFTA Claim And Refund For Previous Filed Return:

We really have no details since when this trucking actually started, however, it is going on smooth road till date. The old truckers used to buy certain number of gallons from each state while they are traveling. However, with the time taking a leap towards technology, IFTA (International Fuel Tax Agreement) was initiated among the 48 jurisdictions and Canadian provinces in order to simplify the reporting of fuel used by each motor carrier in the jurisdictions. Also, IFTA filing is a quarterly based, IFTA filers should possess an IFTA license and a decal to report, pay and ask for a refund on the quarters filed to the base jurisdictions.

We have always been discussing about IFTA in general, but today we would talk about credits and refunds on your IFTA form.

There are scenarios when you pay more than you have to and in such situations every jurisdictions allow a credit and issues refunds to its licensees on behalf of all IFTA jurisdictions. You can request a refund on your IFTA tax return for any overpayment of tax. Also, you need to check on your base jurisdiction on the minimum refund amount. A refund will be issued once its determined that there are no taxes owing (including audit assessments) or delinquent tax returns under IFTA and any of the tax statutes administered by Taxation Division. Please note that all refunds are subject to audit.

If you do not request for a refund, the amount can be carry over and be applied to subsequent taxes owing on your next IFTA tax return.

Do note, the credit should be claimed or used as refund within eight calendar quarters after the calendar quarter in which the credit is earned. For example, if a credit accrues in the 3rd quarter, 2005, the licensee has until October 1, 2007, to request a refund or to apply the credit toward a liability.

So if you have any credits to claim or a refund as mentioned above, do come over TaxIFTA.comand prepare your return in minutes. You will find our application embedded with user centric ideas and innovated in a manner to provide 100% satisfaction.  We are pioneers in the tax industry and we are proud of the fact that we can serve the audience with the best.

Come over, and experience the unique knack in our application and share the same to our Tax Experts only @ 1-866-245-3918 or shoot an email to support@taxexcise.com. We are here to hear all you speak, grasp it and implement. And that is why we love having you around.