{"id":34182,"date":"2018-02-02T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resource-center.hrblock.com\/?p=34182"},"modified":"2018-05-11T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T18:00:18","slug":"tax-dictionary-tax-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrbcomlnp.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/irs\/audits-and-tax-notices\/tax-dictionary-tax-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>IRS Definition<\/h2>\n<p>Common penalties include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Failure to file:<\/strong> when you don&#8217;t file your tax return by the return due date, April 15, or extended due date if an extension to file is requested and approved<\/li>\n<li><strong>Failure to pay:<\/strong> when you don&#8217;t pay the taxes reported on your return in full by the due date, April 15. An extension to file doesn&#8217;t extend the time to pay.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Failure to pay proper estimated tax:<\/strong> when you don\u2019t pay enough taxes due for the year with your quarterly estimated tax payments when required<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dishonored check:<\/strong> when your bank doesn&#8217;t honor your check or other form of payment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More from H&amp;R Block<\/h2>\n<p>In 2015, 27 million taxpayers were charged tax penalties by the IRS. 98% of those penalties were either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/irs\/audits-and-tax-notices\/tax-dictionary-failure-file-penalty\/\">failure to file<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/irs\/audits-and-tax-notices\/tax-dictionary-failure-pay-penalty\/\">failure to pay<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/irs\/audits-and-tax-notices\/tax-dictionary-estimated-tax-penalty\/\">estimated tax penalties<\/a>. Only 12% of those penalties were removed (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/irs\/audits-and-tax-notices\/tax-dictionary-penalty-abatement\/\">abated<\/a>). To have a penalty abated, you need to call or write the IRS. You may be able to get a penalty removed simply because you haven\u2019t had any IRS penalties charged in the last three years. This option, known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/irs\/audits-and-tax-notices\/tax-dictionary-first-time-penalty-abatement\/\">first-time abatement<\/a>\u201d is available for failure to file and failure to pay penalties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/irs\/audits-and-tax-notices\/irs-penalties\/\">Learn how to address IRS penalties.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRS Definition Common penalties include: Failure to file: when you don&#8217;t file your tax return by the return due date, April 15, or extended due date if an extension to file is requested and approved Failure to pay: when you don&#8217;t pay the taxes reported on your return in full by the due date, April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":24806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-irs","category-audits-and-tax-notices"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<title>Tax Dictionary - Tax Penalty | H&amp;R Block<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The most commonly charged IRS penalties are failure to file, failure to pay, or estimated tax penalties. 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