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Form 2290 reports the federal Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax (HVUT). You file it for any highway motor vehicle with a taxable gross weight of 55,000 pounds or more. The IRS stamps a Schedule 1 when the return is accepted, and most states will not renew your registration without it.

If you registered, or are required to register, a highway motor vehicle with a taxable gross weight of 55,000 pounds or more in your name, then yes. That includes trucks you expect to drive under the mileage limit. Those are reported as suspended vehicles rather than left off the return.

Form 2290 is due by the last day of the month after the month you first used the vehicle on public highways. For a truck already in service at the start of the tax period (1 July), that makes the deadline 31 August. Buy a truck in November and your return is due by 31 December.

Your EIN, the exact business name registered to that EIN, your address, and for each truck the full VIN and its taxable gross weight. You also need to decide how you are paying the IRS: by direct debit from a bank account, or through your own EFTPS enrollment.

Yes. One return carries every vehicle and produces a single Schedule 1 listing all of them. The fee depends on how many are on it, from $44.99 for two to four vehicles up to $209.95 for twenty to forty-nine. A return on which every vehicle is suspended is $9.95. Above 49 vehicles we quote it individually.

The IRS decides when a return is accepted, so we do not promise a clock time. What we do promise is that your return is reviewed and transmitted rather than sitting in a queue, and that the stamped Schedule 1 appears in your account the moment the IRS accepts it. Until then you can download a clearly-marked draft copy.

Email us the filing and the correct VIN. A VIN correction is filed as a free-of-tax amendment to the original return and the IRS issues a corrected Schedule 1.

No, and nobody’s is. Our fee covers preparing, reviewing and e-filing the return. The Heavy Vehicle Use Tax itself is paid to the IRS separately, by the method you choose on the return. Both amounts are shown to you before you pay anything.

The site runs over HTTPS, card details are handled by Stripe and never reach our servers, and return data goes to the IRS over an authenticated Modernized e-File channel. We do not sell your information.

Kay Accounting LLC does, as an IRS-authorized e-file provider, under our own EFIN. You are not transmitting to the IRS yourself, which is why a preparer reviews every return before it goes.