Supporting Statement To Correct Information OMB No. 1545-0256 Form 941c (Rev. October 2006) Do Not File Separately Department of the Treasury Page Internal Revenue Service ' File with Forms 941, 941-M, 941-SS, 943, 944, 944(SP), 944-SS, 945, or Form 843. No. Name Employer identification number (EIN) Telephone number (optional) A This form supports adjustments to Form: Check only one box. (see instructions) 941 941-SS 941-M 943 944 944(SP) 944-SS 945 B This form is attached to and filed with the return for the C Enter the date that you discovered the error(s) reported on this form. period ending (month, year) ' (If you are making more than one correction and the errors were not' discovered at the same time, explain in Part V.) Part I Signature and Certification (Youmust complete this part for the IRS to process your adjustments for overpayments.) Skip Part I if all of your adjustments are underpayments. (Part I applies to wages only.) I certify that Forms W-2c, Corrected Wage and Tax Statement, have been filed (as necessary) with the Social Security Administration, and that (check appropriate boxes): All overcollected federal income taxes for the current calendar year and all social security and Medicare taxes for the current and prior calendar years have been repaid to employees. For claims of overcollected employee social security and Medicare taxes in earlier years, a written statement has been obtained from each employee stating that the employee has not claimed and will not claim refund or credit for the amount of the overcollection. All affected employees have given their written consent to the allowance of this credit or refund. For claims of overcollected employee social security and Medicare taxes in earlier years, a written statement has been obtained from each employee stating that the employee has not claimed and will not claim refund or credit for the amount of the overcollection. The social security tax and Medicare tax adjustments represent the employer’s share only. An attempt was made to locate the employee(s) affected, but the affected employee(s) could not be located or will not comply with the certification requirements. None of this refund or credit was withheld from employee wages. Sign Here Signature ' Title ' Date ' Part II Federal Income Tax Withholding (Including Backup Withholding) Adjustment (a) (b) (c) (d) Period Corrected (For quarterly Withheld Income Tax Correct Withheld Withheld Income returns, enter date quarter ended. Previously Reported Income Tax for Tax Adjustment For annual returns, enter year.) for Period Period 1 2 3 4 5 Net withheld income tax adjustment. If more than one page, enter total of all columns (d) on first page only. Enter here and on the appropriate line of the return with which you file this form. ' 5 Part III Social Security Tax Adjustment (Use the tax rate in effect during the period(s) corrected. You must also complete Part IV.) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) Period Corrected (For quarterly Wages Previously Correct Wages for Tips Previously Correct Tips for Social Security Tax returns, enter date quarter ended. Reported for Period Period Reported for Period Period Adjustment For annual returns, enter year.) 1 2 3 4 5 Totals. If more than one page, enter totals on first page only ' 6 Net social security tax adjustment. If more than one page, enter total of allcolumns (f) on first page only. Enter here and on the appropriate line of the return with which you file this form ' 6 7 Net wage adjustment. If more than one page, enter total of alllines 7 on first page only. If line 5(c) is smaller than line 5(b), enter difference in parentheses ' 7 8 Net tip adjustment. If more than one page, enter total of all lines 8 on first page only. If line 5(e) is smaller than line 5(d), enter difference in parentheses ' 8 For Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see page 4. Cat. No. 11242O Form 941c (Rev. 10-2006) |
Form 941c (Rev. 10-2006) Page 2 Part IV Medicare Tax Adjustment (a) (b) (c) (d) Period Corrected (For quarterly Wages and Tips Correct Wages Medicare Tax returns, enter date quarter ended. Previously Reported and Tips for Adjustment For annual returns, enter year.) for Period Period 1 2 3 4 5 Totals. If more than one page, enter totals on first page only ' 6 Net Medicare tax adjustment. If more than one page, enter total of allcolumns (d) on first page only. Enter here and on the appropriate line of the return with which you file this form ' 6 7 Net wage and tip adjustment. If more than one page, enter total of alllines 7 on first page only. If line 5(c) is smaller than line 5(b), enter difference in parentheses ' 7 Part V Explanation of Adjustments Form 941c (Rev. 10-2006) |
Form 941c (Rev. 10-2006) Page 3 What’s New Corrections not required. You are not required to correct errors previously reported as a monthly or daily Line A. Three new check boxes have been added to tax liability. For example, do not use Form 941c to line A on page one for new Forms 944, 944(SP), and correct amounts reported in line 15 of Form 941, line 944-SS. These forms are new for calendar year 2006. 13 of Form 944, line 15 of Form 943, or on Schedule B Filers of these forms who wish to make adjustments (Form 941), Form 943-A and Form 945-A. Also, you are for prior years should check the appropriate box on not required to correct amounts previously reported on line A and file Form 941c with Form 944, 944(SP), or lines 1 or 2 of Form 941 or Form 941-M; or line 1 of 944-SS. Form 941-SS or Form 943. General Instructions Statute of limitations. Generally, you may make an adjustment only within three years of the return due Purpose of form. Use Form 941c to provide date or the date the return was filed, whichever is later. background information and certifications supporting For the statute of limitations, the due date of Forms prior period adjustments to income, social security, 941, 941-M, 941-SS, 943, 944, 944(SP), 944-SS, and and Medicare taxes reported on Form 941, 941-M, 945 is April 15 of the year after the close of the tax 941-SS, 943, 944, 944(SP), 944-SS, or Form 945. File year. For example, the four quarterly Forms 941 filed it with the tax return on which you are claiming the for 2004 are all treated as due on April 15, 2005. If adjustment (Form 941, 943, 944, 945, etc.). You may they were filed on or before April 15, 2005, use Form 941c even though you filed the original adjustments could be made for any of the quarterly return on magnetic media or electronically. returns for 2004 until April 15, 2008. Do not use Form 941c as a supporting statement for current period adjustments (for example, adjustment Specific Instructions for uncollected employee share of social security and Medicare taxes on tips). No supporting statement is Complete all applicable columns on the line for each required for the fractions-of-cents, group-term life return period that you are correcting. Show the total insurance, and third-party sick pay adjustments. See amount paid to all employees, not the amount for each your form instructions. individual employee. If you need more space, use additional Forms 941c. Federal income tax withholding errors. Generally, you are not permitted to correct federal income tax If you use additional Forms 941c as continuation withholding errors made in a prior calendar year. pages, be sure that the total and net adjustment lines However, you may make an adjustment to correct an on the first form include the totals from the continuation administrative error in a prior year. Refer to Pub. 15 pages. These lines are line 5 of Part II, lines 5 through 8 (Circular E), Employer’s Tax Guide, for more of Part III, and lines 5 through 7 of Part IV. information on correcting administrative errors. Line A. Check the box for the return that you are More information. See Pub. 15 (Circular E), Pub. 51 adjusting. Check only one box. Use a separate (Circular A), Agricultural Employer’s Tax Guide, or your Form 941c for each type of return (for example, form instructions for more information about Form 941 and Form 945). adjustments. Line B. Show the return period in which you are How to use Form 941c. Form 941c is notan reporting tax adjustment(s). For example, if you are amended return and must never be filed separately. making an adjustment on Form 941 for the quarter You must make adjustments on the return (for ending June 30, 2006, enter 06-2006. File Form 941c example, Form 941) for the period during which you with Form 941 for this period. Do not show the return discovered the error. There is no limit to the number period(s) being corrected in this entry space. of adjustments that you can make, and these Line C. Enter the date that you discovered the adjustments can be for corrections to more than one error(s). If you are making more than one correction prior period. However, if you filed two or more types of and the errors were not discovered at the same time, tax returns that need correction (for example, Form leave line C blank and explain in Part V. The date that 941 and Form 943), use a separate Form 941c for you discover the error(s) is the date that your tax each type of return. The net adjustment increases or liability increases or decreases. Your deposits for this decreases your tax liability for the period in which the date must be adjusted accordingly. See your form error was discovered and adjusted. instructions for more information. If your adjustment(s) results in an overpayment, you Part I—Signature and certification. Part I applies to may apply for a refund using Form 843, Claim for wages only. If any adjustment is for an overpayment, it Refund and Request for Abatement, instead of making cannot be processed unless you check at least one an adjustment as discussed above. If you choose to box in Part I and you sign the certification. If you file Form 843, you will receive a refund check (with obtained written consents or statements from some interest) instead of reducing your current employment employees but you could not locate or secure the tax liability (no interest). When filing Form 843, attach cooperation of the remaining employees, check both Form 941c or an equivalent statement. the second and third boxes. Provide a summary in If you did not file a return for one or more return Part V of the amount of the adjustments for both the periods, do not use Form 941c to report the employees who provided statements and for those information. Instead, file the required returns. who did not. |
Form 941c (Rev. 10-2006) Page 4 You may make an adjustment for both the employer you must file a Form W-2c, Corrected Wage and Tax and employee shares of social security and Medicare Statement, with the SSA and give copies to the taxes for those employees who provided the required employee for any social security correction made after written statement. But you may make adjustments for you filed his or her Form W-2 with the SSA. Do not only the employer’s share for those employees who send Form 941c (or a copy) to the SSA with did not provide statements. Form(s) W-2c. Part II—Federal Income Tax Withholding (Including Part IV—Medicare Tax Adjustment. Use this part to Backup Withholding) Adjustment. Use this part to correct Medicare wages and tips information that you correct federal income tax withholding (including reported in an earlier period. You may make backup withholding) information that you previously corrections to Medicare taxes reported in prior reported. Show the total amount of income tax calendar years as long as the statute of limitations has withheld or required to be withheld. not expired (see Statute of limitations on page 3). If After the end of the year, you cannot adjust the you are reducing Medicare taxes, be sure to read and amounts reported as income tax withheld (including check the appropriate boxes in Part I. backup withholding) unless it is to correct an You must file a Form W-2c with the SSA and give administrative error. An administrative error is any error copies to the employee for any Medicare correction that does not change the amount of income tax that made after you filed Form W-2 with the SSA. was actually withheld. For example, if the total income tax actually withheld was incorrectly reported due to a mathematical computation or transposition error, this is Paperwork Reduction Act Notice. We ask for the an administrative error. information on this form to carry out the Internal Except to correct an administrative error, you will not Revenue laws of the United States. You are required to give us the information. We need it to ensure that you be allowed a refund or credit for any prior year are complying with these laws and to allow us to figure overpayment of income tax withheld (including backup and collect the right amount of tax. withholding). This is because the amount of withholding shown on Form W-2, Wage and Tax You are not required to provide the information Statement, Form W-2G, Certain Gambling Winnings, or requested on a form that is subject to the Paperwork Form 1099, is used as a credit on the employee’s or Reduction Act unless the form displays a valid OMB income recipient’s income tax return (Form 1040, etc.). control number. Books or records relating to a form or If you are making an administrative error adjustment its instructions must be retained as long as their for a period during a prior calendar year, provide an contents may become material in the administration of explanation in Part V. any Internal Revenue law. Generally, tax returns and return information are confidential, as required by Code Part III—Social Security Tax Adjustment. Use this section 6103. part to correct social security wages and tips information that you reported in an earlier period. You The time needed to complete and file this form will may make corrections to social security taxes reported vary depending on individual circumstances. The in prior calendar years as long as the statute of estimated average time is 9 hours and 12 minutes. limitations has not expired (see Statute of limitations on If you have comments concerning the accuracy of page 3). If you are reducing social security taxes, be this time estimate or suggestions for making this form sure to read and check the appropriate boxes in Part I. simpler, we would be happy to hear from you. You can Because Form W-2 is used by the Social Security write to the IRS at the address shown in the Privacy Administration (SSA) to post an employee’s social Act and Paperwork Reduction Act Notice in the security wages and tips to his or her earnings record, instructions of the tax return with which you file Form 941c. |