File your Form 2290 with BKS and receive your IRS-stamped Schedule 1. E-File Now
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File directly with the IRS in minutes, not a form that leaves you guessing. The platform prepares, validates, and transmits your Form 2290 automatically. You review the figures and sign with your own IRS PIN. Everything else happens instantly.
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Why BKS
File your Form 2290 in minutes, starting at $6.95. The platform handles the weight categories, mileage suspensions and IRS schema checks so you do not have to look them up yourself.
Your return is prepared and validated against the IRS schema by the platform before anything reaches the IRS. Weight categories, mileage suspensions, logging rates and Line 5 credits are computed for you, not something you look up.
Owner-operators and fleets file here all year, so mid-period additions, sold and destroyed units, suspended vehicles and VIN corrections are routine flows here rather than edge cases.
If the IRS rejects a return, the platform shows you the exact error code so you can correct it and refile at no additional filing fee. There is a support inbox to contact, not a form that disappears into nothing.
How it works
A simple, automated filing process. Five stages, and you are involved in exactly one of them.
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Your EIN, the vehicles, and when each first hit the road. A spreadsheet, a photo of the titles or last year’s Schedule 1 all work.
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Instantly builds the Form 2290, computes the tax by weight category and checks it against the IRS schema before anything is transmitted.
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The figures are shown to you in plain English. You authorise the return with your own 5-digit IRS PIN, because federal law requires the taxpayer’s signature. No platform or person can do that step for you.
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Transmitted through IRS Modernized e-File under our own EFIN the moment you sign, not queued for review and not handed to a third party to send on our behalf.
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The stamped Schedule 1, the return and the IRS acknowledgement stay in your account. When a DMV or an auditor asks, the document is already there.
Who we serve
One truck or a small operation, no back office, and no interest in learning a filing system once a year. We handle it and keep the paperwork.
Start filingTrucks added mid-period, suspensions to track, and credits worth claiming when a unit is sold or destroyed. One engagement covers the whole roster.
Fleet solutionsFiling on behalf of carriers who would rather it came from a named person than a web form. Third-party designee details are collected up front.
Work with BKSClient portal
Secure access to your 2290 filings and documents whenever you need them. The stamped Schedule 1 stays on file, so producing it for a DMV or an auditor is a download rather than a phone call.
The difference
Five things that are true of every return we file.
The platform prepares and validates the return against the IRS schema before it is transmitted. No waiting on a preparer.
Every return is validated against the IRS schema, so schema rejections are caught here rather than by the IRS.
If the IRS rejects a return, the platform shows you the exact error code so you can correct it and refile at no additional filing fee.
Your IRS PIN, the officer’s SSN and any bank account number are write-only: no screen, export or support tool can display them.
Email reaches the practice directly rather than a support queue, and a person who knows your filing answers it.
Pricing
One flat fee per return, banded by fleet size. No packages, no add-ons, and no surprises at checkout.
You do not need an account, an email address or a card to find out what you owe and when it is due. Both calculators are free and answer instantly.
The Heavy Vehicle Use Tax for any mix of weights and in-service months, prorated for mid-year trucks.
Tax calculator →Your exact deadline, including the five dates a year that move off a weekend or a federal holiday.
Deadline calculator →Where each state registers heavy trucks, and the five that charge their own highway tax on top of the federal one.
Form 2290 by state →Resource centre
Plain-English guides to the parts of Form 2290 that catch people out.
What the Heavy Vehicle Use Tax is, who owes it, how it is computed, and what the IRS does with it.
Read the guideWhen the return is due for a vehicle already in service, and for one first used part-way through the period.
Read the guideWhat the stamped Schedule 1 proves, when you need it, and what a DMV will accept.
Read the guideWhat to do when a VIN was entered incorrectly on a return the IRS has already accepted.
Read the guideWhen a Line 5 credit applies, what evidence you need to keep, and how it offsets the tax due.
Read the guidePractices for businesses filing for several vehicles: mid-period additions, suspensions and recordkeeping.
Read the guideQuestions
The questions we are asked most often.
Not covered here? Contact support and you will hear back.
Form 2290 reports the federal Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax. It applies to vehicles with a taxable gross weight of 55,000 pounds or more that use public highways, and it is filed with the IRS for a tax period running 1 July to 30 June.
Whoever the vehicle is registered to. That is usually the owner, but it can be a lessee depending on the lease. If your vehicle is 55,000 pounds or more and runs on public highways, a return is due even when the vehicle is suspended and no tax is owed.
The tax period runs 1 July to 30 June. For a vehicle already in use at the start of the period, the return is due by 31 August. For a vehicle first used later in the period, it is due by the last day of the month following the month of first use.
Your business name and EIN exactly as the IRS holds them, the VIN and taxable gross weight of each vehicle, the month each was first used in the period, and a 5-digit self-select PIN to sign with. A Social Security number cannot be used in place of an EIN.
The platform prepares the return from your information, checks it against the IRS schema, and transmits it through IRS Modernized e-File as an IRS Authorized e-file Provider under our own EFIN, rather than passing it to a third party to file on your behalf.
The IRS returns the stamped Schedule 1 on acceptance, and it appears in your account alongside the return and the acknowledgement. It stays there, so it can be produced again when a DMV or an auditor asks.
You will see the exact error the IRS returned; correct it and resubmit through your account. Most rejections are a mismatch between the business name and the EIN the IRS holds, or a duplicate return for the same period. We do not charge our filing fee twice for the same return.
Yes. A VIN typed incorrectly on a return the IRS has already accepted needs a VIN correction, which is a separate filing type rather than an edit to the original. It is priced below a new return.
Filing reminders and tax-period updates. No more than a few emails a year.
The platform prepares, validates, and files your Form 2290 automatically, starting at $6.95, so you can get back to running your business.
One truck, one return, filed and on file.
$6.95per return
Filed as one return covering the whole roster.
Bandedby fleet size
The band follows the vehicles on the finished return, and we confirm the figure with you before anything is charged. See the full fee table. The Heavy Vehicle Use Tax itself is paid to the IRS and never passes through us.