How do I fill out this 941 tax form if my business never paid wages?

Question

My husband opened an LLC last year in November. He got as far as doing the state paperwork and filling for his EIN. He never went into business because he got a better opportunity with his old company. Several months ago, we got the 941 forms for reporting wages. I checked the box that the business was closed or didn't pay any wages. I can't remember what I put for the date the wages were paid. I may have left it blank because it was not applicable since wages were never paid. I got another 941 for the third quater and don't want to have to keep filling these out with zeros because no wages were paid. What should I use as the date that wages were last paid since again it is not applicable being wages were never paid? Should I use the date of incorporation? Also, my husband doesn't want to dissolve the LLC because he has it should he need it later on. Can he just keep the LLC but stay inactive as far as operating and paying wages? Does this need to go on his personal return?

Answer 1

Here is the site's your need to answer your question's. Also contacts to actually speak to a real person if need be.

Good Luck hope this helps.


U.S. Department of Labor
Frances Perkins Building
200 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20210
1-866-4-USA-DOL
TTY: 1-877-889-5627

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/index.html

http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=128614,00.html

CP 139 - You May Not Need to File Forms 940 or 941

Details About This Notice: Sample Content: Page 1
Purpose: We send a CP 139 to inform the recipient that they will no longer need to file Form 941 unless they owe tax.
Reason for Issuance: The recipient filed Form 941 with no tax due for the previous four quarters. We send CP 139 to inform them that we'll no longer send them Forms 940 or 941, they won't need to file Form 941 again unless they owe tax for the quarter, and how to request that the forms be sent to them if they need them in the future.

Answer 2

Since you have not had any payroll expenses, you did not have any obligation to file for 941. Since you have filed 941 in the past, you may want to let IRS know that you do not intend to file the form until the LLC incurs payroll expenses.

Answer 3

Call the IRS explain to them and ask what you need to do, or better yet if you have an accountant take the papers to them and have them straighten this out. I'd suggest the accountant, because believe you me, you don't want this going on forever and with the IRS it can.

Answer 4

make sure that you get this take care of and acknowledged by the IRS. I had that problem a number of years ago and it took me six years to get them to stop taking my tax refund to pay the employee taxes for a business that I closed up as in "no employees".

Answer 5

Put none in the tax withheld boxes and the tax due box. Check the box that no future wages will be paid.