The Secret to Stress-Free Form 990 Filing

The month of November is rather nostalgic with the Fall season bringing about cooler temperatures and Thanksgiving kicking off holiday gatherings and celebrations. 

November is also a big month in the tax exempt industry. If your exempt organization operates on a fiscal year which ends on June 30, your IRS Form 990 return is due by November 15. If you operate on a calendar year (original due date of May 15) but filed a 6-month extension through Form 8868, your 990 return is due also. 

Deadlines are never fun and trying to meet them can become stressful. Thankfully, e-filing with ExpressTaxExempt eliminates the stress of tax filing while on a time-crunch. 

ExpressTaxExempt offers the entire Form 990 Series to be completed in the most simple and easiest method possible. You won’t have to worry about missing your Form 990 deadline because the interview style e-filing process will help you complete your form and instantly transmit it directly to the IRS. 

All that you will need to do is follow the simple step-by-step guide to create your free account, enter basic information about your organization, complete the form interview, review your information and audit report, pay for your form, and transmit it directly to the IRS. The entire process is completed in 5 simple steps! 

Failing to file your Form 990 return can result in accumulating expensive penalties very quickly. If your organization fails to file on time and has less than $1,000,000 in gross receipts for the entire year and do not provide reasonable cause for missing the deadline, the IRS will charge you $20 per day for every day that your return is late. 

This penalty continuously accrues until you reach the maximum of $10,000 or 5% of your organization’s total gross receipts, depending on which amount is less. Filing with ExpressTaxExempt prevents this from happening. 

Stress-Free Filing

The best way to handle any type of situation, especially tax filing, is to be prepared. By being proactive and having a tax plan in place, the risk of last minute tax surprises can be avoided. Here are some other ways to have stress-free filing experience: 

1. Know your specific filing deadline 
2. Determine and Organize all of the information you will need when filing in advance. 
3. Strategize the amount of time needed to file your 990 while still conducting the daily tasks of your exempt organization, charity, etc. 
4. Maintain detailed records throughout the calendar or fiscal year. 
5. Utilize the ExpressTaxExempt website as an informative resource before, during, and after the e-filing process. 

Filing Process

Our service at ExpressTaxExempt is dedicated to providing the best and most efficient e-filing experience for tax exempt organizations, no matter how big or small. Because of this, all ExpressTaxExempt users can begin the filing process for free and easily enter their organization’s information individually. Payment is only required at the very end when it’s time to transmit your return directly to the IRS. Furthermore, our interview-style form completion includes internal audit checks to ensure that all information is entered properly with no areas left undone, auto-generated IRS form Schedules to accompany your 990 return, along with several other exclusive features.

We're Help To Help

E-filing your appropriate Form 990 Series return before the November 15 due date with the #1 authorized IRS e-file provider (ExpressTaxExempt) is a piece of cake. Contact our support team of e-file experts at 704.839.2321 for any questions or help with your e-filing experience. We’re available Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST or reach us 24/7 via email with support@ExpressTaxExempt.com.

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How to Invite Users to Review Your Organization's Return

As deadlines approach, you might find yourself needing to share your Form 990 series return with someone on your board of directors, and you don’t want to share your own ExpressTaxExempt login. Well, we’ve added a new feature that simplifies this whole process!


With our new Manage Reviewers and Approvers feature, you’re just a few clicks away from inviting users to review your tax exempt organization's return.

When you start on your dashboard, click on the tab that says My Account. From there, scroll down and click on Manage Reviewers and Approvers.

In order to share your return with another person, click on the Add User button. You’ll be prompted to enter the user’s information, like their name, email address, and phone number, as well as the tax year of the return, in order to proceed. After that, you just need to click Share Return, and the invitation is sent.

After your click share, an email that contains a secure link and login credentials to the shared viewing portal are then sent to the intended user. To continue, the user will need their credentials, and they’ll be prompted to change their password upon signing in. The user will have as much access to the return as you granted within the invitation. After logging in, the user can view the return, and add their own comments and corrections for the main user’s reviewal.

Not only can the reviewing user add comments, they also have the option to download Form 990 for further review. If you simply require a signature, users can e-sign the return straight from ExpressTaxExempt.

Still confused? We’ve covered the basics in this video!



And if you share your Form 990 series return and your reviewer gives you enough comments and corrections to set you back, e-file for an automatic 3-month extension of time to file with Form 8868, the application for extension of time to file an exempt organization return.

If you or your reviewers have any questions about the Manage Reviewers and Approvers feature, call us at 704.839.2321, live chat with us from our website, or send us an email.

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Introducing Express990

It is with great fanfare and excitement that we announce our newest addition to the ExpressTaxZone family: Express990. With Express990, tax-exempt organizations can easily and quickly file their Forms 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF. We are currently offering free filing for current tax year, Form 990-N (the e-Postcard) - it’s easy and will only take you less than 5 minutes from start to finish.

More about the form(s) provided by Express990:

• Form 990-N (e-Postcard) is an annual IRS E-filing requirement for small non-profit organizations and charities that make $50,000 or less a year in gross receipts.

Coming Soon to Express990:

• Form 990 - (Long form of 990) is the form that tax-exempt organizations use to report income, expenses, and other company information to the IRS. It is typically used by organizations with gross receipts in total of $200,000 and $500,000 of assets.

• Form 990-EZ - (short form of 990) is the form that tax-exempt organizations use to report income, expenses, and other company information to the IRS. It is used by organizations with gross receipts totaling less than $200,000 or total assets of less than $500,000.

If you’re always on the go, you can easily access our mobile site, m.expresstaxexempt.com from your mobile device and start filing IRS Form 990-N anywhere at any time. Or if time just isn’t on your side you can file an automatic extension of up to 6 months with our sister product, ExpressExtension.com. The entire process is simple and the easy-to-follow prompts will guide you through the entire process.

Need a little help?
 Our US-based support team located in Rock Hill, South Carolina is always available to help make your filing process as simple and easy as possible. You can reach us by phone at 803.514.5155 or by email at support@expresstaxexempt.com with any questions you might have.

So the biggest question is: what are you waiting for? File with Express990 and get back to doing what you love.

Express990 - filing your taxes has never felt so good.

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