"Subject: Your EFTPS Tax Payment ID has been rejected.
Report ID: ***. Your Federal Tax Payment ID: *** has been rejected. Return Reason Code R## – The identification number used in the Company Identification Field is not valid. Please, check the information and refer to Code R## to get details about your company payment in transaction contacts section: http://www.eftps*******7.com/contacts"
This is a scam to get you to click their link or call them. They tell you your tax and/or bank information is out of date. They will tell you that you owe outstanding taxes plus penalties. You can either give them your bank information, send them a lump check, or set up a payment plan.This is not a legit email. The IRS will never initiate contact with a tax payer via email. When you pay your taxes via EFTPS website or batch program, if a payment was returned because of incorrect information or insufficient funds, it would be posted as such. When you call the IRS, they would be able to tell you immediately if there were any payment issues.
Further more, if any of you have ever tried to set up EFTPS through the website or batch program, you would know the information required to get started and all the hoops it seems you must jump through before you could ever make your first payment. Those systems are managed by the IRS. You cannot change your tax or bank information on the website, but only through contacting them via phone. The EFTPS batch program can submit a change request, but it has to be approved first by the IRS. Either way, their program would never allow an incorrect "file" to be submitted.
This is one of the benefits of doing payroll with Total Payroll Solution. We keep tabs on all the tax payments, keep your bank information up to date, and will notify you if there is a problem with the tax payment we submitted for you. Please call us at 765-288-PAID (7243) or contact us through our website, www.TPSpayroll.com, for more information and a price quote.
