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Key Dates in January 2025

  • Employees who work for tips

    Category: General Employees who work for tips

    January 10, 2025

    Employees who work for tips – If you received $20 or more in tips during the previous month, report them to your employer. You can use Form 4070 Employee’s Report of Tips to Employer.

  • Employers

    Category: General Employers


    January 15, 2025

    Employers – Nonpayroll Withholding. If the monthly deposit rule applies, deposit the tax for payments in December.

    Farmers and Fisherman

    Category: General Farmers and Fisherman


    January 15, 2025

    Farmers and Fisherman – Pay your estimated tax for this year using Form 1040ES. You have until April 15 to file this year’s income tax return (Form 1040). If you don’t pay your estimated tax by January 15, you must file this year’s return and pay any tax due by March 1 to avoid an estimated tax penalty.

    Individuals

    Category: General Individuals


    January 15, 2025

    Individuals – Make a payment of your estimated tax for this year if you did not pay your income tax for the year through withholding (or did not pay in enough tax that way). Use Form 1040-ES. This is the final installment date for this year’s estimated tax. However, you do not have to make this payment if you file this year’s return (Form 1040) and pay any tax due by January 31 of the following year.

  • Employers

    Category: General Employers


    January 31, 2025

    Employers – Federal unemployment tax. File Form 940 (or 940-EZ) for this year. If your undeposited tax is $500 or less, you can either pay it with your return or deposit it. If it is more than $500, you must deposit it. However, if you already deposited the tax for the year in full and on time, you have until February 10 to file the return.

    Employers

    Category: General Employers


    January 31, 2025

    Employers – Social Security, Medicare, and withheld income tax. File Form 941 for the fourth quarter of this year. Deposit any undeposited tax. (If your tax liability is less than $2,500, you can pay it in full with a timely filed return.) If you deposited the tax for the quarter in full and on time, you have until February 10 to file the return.

    Employers

    Category: General Employers


    January 31, 2025

    Employers – Nonpayroll taxes. File Form 945 to report income tax withheld for this year on all nonpayroll items, including backup withholding and withholding on pensions, annuities, IRAs, gambling winnings, and payments of Indian gaming profits to tribal members. Deposit any undeposited tax. (If your tax liability is less than $2,500, you can pay it in full with a timely filed return.) If you deposited the tax for the year in full and on time, you have until February 10 to file the return.

    Employers

    Category: General Employers


    January 31, 2025

    Employers – Give your employees their copies of Form W-2 for the previous year. If an employee agreed to receive Form W-2 electronically, post it on a website accessible to the employee and notify the employee of the posting by January 31st.

    Employers

    Category: General Employers


    January 31, 2025

    Employers – Give annual information Forms 1098, 1099 and W-2G to recipients for certain payments made during the year.

    Employers

    Category: General Employers


    January 31, 2025

    Employers – File Form W-3 with Copy A of all Forms W-2 issued for the current tax year. File Form 1099-MISC with the IRS when you are reporting non-employee compensation payments in box 7.

    Individuals

    Category: General Individuals


    January 31, 2025

    Individuals – File your income tax return (Form 1040) for this year if you did not pay your last installment of estimated tax by January 15. Filing your return and paying any tax due by January 31 prevents any penalty for late payment of last installment.