Credit Card
You may pay the amount you owe on your 2005 tax return using Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express. You will be charged a fee of 2.5% of your payment, which is paid directly to the Official Payments Corporation, our credit card service provider. Payment is effective on the day you charge it.
To Charge Your Taxes by Phone
Call 1-800-272-9829 using a touch-tone phone. The DC jurisdiction code is 6000. You will be given a confirmation number that you should keep with your records.
To Charge Your Taxes Online
Log onto www.officialpayments.com and select "make a payment." The DC jurisdiction code is 6000. You will be given a confirmation number that you should keep with your records.
Check or Money Order
Include a personal check or money order made payable to the D.C. Treasurer with your completed voucher. Write your social security number, daytime phone number, and "2002 D-40" on your payment. For your convenience, OnLine Taxes will provide this form for you if you owe.
How can you avoid penalties and interst?
File your return on time!
There is a 5% per-month penalty for failure to file a return or pay any tax due on time. The penalty is calculated on the unpaid tax for each month or part of a month that the return is not filed or the tax is not paid. The maximum penalty is an amount equal to 25% of the tax due.
You will be charged interest of .0355921 per day (13% per year) on any tax not paid on time. Interest is calculated from the due date of the return to the date when the tax is paid.
Make sure your check will clear, you will be charged a $65 fee if your check is returned to the DC treasury.
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