{"id":1585,"date":"2012-01-25T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/get-a-6-month-tax-extension-at-filelater-com"},"modified":"2025-03-10T04:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:32:29","slug":"get-a-6-month-tax-extension-at-filelater-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/get-a-6-month-tax-extension-at-filelater-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a 6 Month Tax Extension at FileLater.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS grants tax extensions by submitting Form 4868. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filelater.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tax Extension\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FileLater.com <\/a>offers an simple online application for submitting this form electronically. FileLater.com features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filelater.com\/resources\/how-fill-out-tax-form-4868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">E-file Form 4868<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Personal Tax Return Extensions<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filelater.com\/resources\/how-fill-out-tax-form-7004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">E-file Form 7004<\/a> &#8211; Corporate Tax Return Extensions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How It Works:<\/strong> <strong>Step 1 <\/strong> The IRS requires that you provide some personal information in order to request a tax extension online. This includes your name, address, Social Security Number (or ITIN) ? and the same information for your spouse if you are married filing jointly. Tax forms (including W-2s, 1099s, and prior year returns) are not required to get a tax extension. Additionally, you can be confident that all of your data is kept secure and shared only with the IRS. <strong>Step 2<\/strong> In order to get a tax extension, you must estimate whether you expect to owe taxes or get a tax refund. Don&rsquo;t worry, this isn&rsquo;t as complicated as it may sound. You can use FileLater&rsquo;s helpful tax calculator to estimate your situation. Note that many taxpayers simply assume a similar tax situation to the previous year. If you expect to owe any tax, you will want to make a payment to avoid potential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filelater.com\/tax-extension-resources\/tax-payments-penalties.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">interest and late payment penalties<\/a> assessed by the IRS. FileLater can also help you make a payment directly to the IRS via Electronic Funds Withdrawal (EFT) directly from your bank account. <strong>Step 3<\/strong> Once you submit your tax extension using FileLater, the system will immediately electronically file (e-file) Tax Form 4868 to the IRS for approval. Note that FileLater is an authorized IRS e-file provider, which means that your transaction and your information are completely secure. <strong>That&rsquo;s All It Takes<\/strong> Within a few hours of submitting your tax extension request, FileLater will send you a confirmation email notifying that your tax extension (Form 4868) has been approved by the IRS. If, for any reason, your tax extension request is denied, FileLater will tell you why ? and you can resubmit for free after making the necessary changes. Keep in mind, nearly all rejections are caused by mistakes (misspellings or Social Security Numbers that don&rsquo;t match IRS records). As long as you submit your information accurately and on-time, your tax extension will likely be approved ? which is why the IRS calls it an &ldquo;automatic extension.&rdquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filelater.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tax Extension\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Submit an extension at FileLater.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS grants tax extensions by submitting Form 4868. FileLater.com offers an simple online application for submitting this form electronically. FileLater.com features: E-file Form 4868&nbsp;&#8211; Personal Tax Return Extensions E-file Form 7004 &#8211; Corporate Tax Return Extensions How It Works: Step 1 The IRS requires that you provide some personal information in order to request [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tax-extensions","tag-tax-extension"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4232,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/4232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}