US payroll, tax and filing deadlines — 2026 checks

Thresholds, rates and filing windows that moved for 2026: payroll taxes, information returns, benefits limits, state rules and federal forms. Each check runs on your own numbers and names the rule it applies.

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Form 5472 Penalty Clock 2026 — Foreign-Owned US LLC

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Late Forms 5472 x 25,000 each (IRC 6038A), 30-day add-ons after an IRS notice, and your April 15 / October 15 due date

Form 990 Late-Filing Penalty and Auto-Revocation Clock (2026)

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Your due date, your days late, the 2026 IRC 6652(c) penalty, and the date your exemption disappears.

Patent Maintenance Fee Window Checker 2026

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Turn a US patent grant date into the three USPTO fee windows, the 2026 amounts, and the cost of missing each one

H-1B Fee Split Check 2026

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Prices a cap season on the 2026 USCIS fee table and names the money you can never bill the worker

Delaware Franchise Tax Recheck 2026

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The February notice is priced on Authorized Shares. Recheck it on Assumed Par Value Capital before March 1, 2027.

WOTC 8850 28-Day Clock 2026

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Form 8850 is due 28 calendar days after a start date. During the 2026 WOTC authority lapse the clock still runs.

B-Notice Clock: CP2100 Backup Withholding Exposure (2026)

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Two statutory dates and one dollar figure, straight off the IRS notice on your desk.

Form 5500 Late Filing Exposure vs DFVCP (2026)

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Count the real per-day exposure on a late ERISA annual report, then price the DFVCP alternative

I-9 Audit Fine Exposure Calculator (2026 ICE matrix)

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Turn your I-9 error rate into the fine ICE would assess, before the three-day Notice of Inspection clock runs out

179D Grandfather Check 2026

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Does the project still clear the 2026-06-30 179D gate, and what is it worth on the 2026 rate table?

Inherited IRA 10-Year Rule: 2026 Annual RMD and Excise Clock

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Tells you whether the 2024 final regulations force an annual RMD on your inherited IRA in 2026, what it is, and what missing it costs.

Sales Tax Nexus Exposure Clock 2026

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Price the uncollected sales tax, penalty and interest you have been carrying since the month you crossed a US state's economic nexus threshold.

OSHA 300A E-Filing Clock - 2026 penalty rates

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Which injury forms your establishments must upload by March 2, and what one missed cycle is cited at under OSHA's 2026 penalty table.

HSA 2026 Limit & Testing-Period Checker

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Prices the last-month rule before the IRS prices it for you

State Paid Leave Cost Check 2026

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Prices the 2026 paid-family-leave payroll premium for Delaware, Maine, Minnesota and Maryland, applying the size tier and the wage test that decide your rate.

Payroll Deduction Code Audit 2026

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Twelve rules over the deduction-code map, before the January 31 W-2 filing date

Payroll Rate Expiry Lint

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The day your rate table stopped being correct, with the line number

US Trademark Renewal Clock 2026 - Section 8/9 window, grace date and exact USPTO fee

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Type the registration date and the date you plan to file. It returns the maintenance window, the day the registration is cancelled, and the fee per class from the USPTO…

Section 174A R&D Catch-Up Check 2026

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How much of your 2022-2024 domestic R&D is still stranded, and which OBBBA route releases it

SUI Wage Base Check 2026

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Catch a payroll spreadsheet that still caps wages at last year's state unemployment wage base

Garnishment Cap Checker 2026

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The lawful maximum you may withhold on one paycheck, under the 2026 federal CCPA test and the stricter state rule

Medicare IRMAA 2026 Cliff Check

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One dollar of 2024 MAGI over the line adds a full year of Medicare surcharges. See the line before you cross it.

US Pay Range Posting Check 2026

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Price the penalty on a job ad with no salary range — before it goes live, in the state that actually applies

2026 Roth Catch-Up Checker for 401(k) Payroll

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Decides, per employee, whether 2026 catch-up must be coded Roth and what the per-payroll amount is

Escheat Deadline Checker - US unclaimed property, 2026 cycle

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One stale check date in, your state's dormancy date, due-diligence mail-by date and holder report deadline out.

FUTA Credit Reduction True-Up 2026 - Form 940 Schedule A extra tax by state

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Your payroll system accrues FUTA at 0.6%. The Department of Labor announces the credit reduction on November 10, 2026 - and it applies retroactively to every wage dollar…

2026 ACA Cliff & Clawback Check

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ACA subsidy cliff 2026: is this client over the restored 400% FPL line, and what do they repay now that OBBBA section 71305 deleted the $3,250 cap?

QSBS Anniversary Check — Section 1202 tiers and the $15M cap (2026)

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Prices your exit date against the 3 / 4 / 5-year exclusion tiers that OBBBA added on 2025-07-04.

US Landed Cost Checker 2026 (de minimis suspended)

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Duty, MPF and true landed cost on every US-bound order now that the $800 free pass is gone

Box 12 Code TT Audit — 2026 W-2 Overtime Premium

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Only the FLSA half-premium belongs in Code TT. Payroll exports put the whole time-and-a-half there.

1099-DA Basis Gap Checker (2026)

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See which of your 2026 crypto sales reach the IRS with box 1e blank - and price what that blank costs.

Exempt Salary Threshold Check 2026

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Enter a salary and a state: get the 2026 exempt floor, the overtime back pay if the job is under it, and what a raise costs instead.

Estate 706 Deadline & Portability Clock (2026, US federal)

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Enter the date of death: get the 9-month Form 706 due date, the Form 4768 extended date, the earliest Pay.gov closing-letter request date, the five-year late-portability…

Davis-Bacon Overtime & Fringe Check 2026

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Recompute the overtime base the way 29 CFR 5.32 requires, then price the back wages and the $27-a-day CWHSSA liquidated damages before the auditor does.

US State Annual Report Deadline & Late-Fee Check (2026)

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Pick the state, put in your registration date and how many entities you hold there, and see the 2026 deadline, the penalty if you file today, and the date the state can…

Form 8996 90% Asset Test and Penalty Checker (2026 testing dates)

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Both testing dates, the six-month cash carve-out, and the monthly section 1400Z-2(f)(1) penalty, worked while the balance sheet is still on screen.

Misclassification Exit Calculator 2026

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Section 530, the VCSP, or the audit - what each one actually costs you

SCA Health & Welfare Shortfall Check (2026 rate $5.92)

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Enter the hours you paid and the fringe you credited. It returns the Health & Welfare you owe under the wage determination your contract actually carries, the hours the…

1099 Threshold & Penalty Check 2026 (US)

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The $600 answer is wrong for tax year 2026 - and four states never moved off their own numbers.

Mileage Reimbursement Audit 2026 - both IRS rates, and what lands on the W-2

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The 2026 business mileage rate did not hold one value all year: 72.5 cents through June 30, 76 cents from July 1 (Announcement 2026-11).

Estimated Tax Safe Harbor Checker 2026

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What you must have paid by each 2026 IRS installment date - and what the gap is already costing you at 7%.

Payroll Tax Spreadsheet for US Small Employers — FICA, FUTA and State UI Wage-Base Caps per Paycheck

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Deposit short and the IRS adds 2% to 15% of the shortfall under IRC § 6656.

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