Trucking tax & compliance centre

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.

We prepare the return, check it against the IRS schema, and transmit 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 our 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.

We read the error the IRS returned, correct it and transmit again. 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.

Yes. Fleets are filed as one return covering the whole roster, with each vehicle carrying its own weight category, first-use month and suspension status. Our fee is a flat amount by fleet size.

Yes. An amendment is required when the taxable gross weight of a vehicle increases during the period, or when a vehicle reported as suspended later exceeds the mileage limit. Both change the tax due for the period.

Yes. You sign your own return with a 5-digit self-select PIN of your choosing, any five digits except 00000. We cannot sign for you: federal law requires the taxpayer’s signature, and we would not take it if we could.

Your IRS PIN, the signing officer’s Social Security number and any bank account number are write-only. There is no page, export or support tool that can display them; the system returns only a presence flag or a masked form. This is enforced where the data leaves the database, so it holds on every route.

Yes, for Form 2290. Returns are transmitted through the IRS Modernized e-File system under our own EFIN. We are not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Internal Revenue Service.