I need help filing an IRS form online

Hi nickg5,

What forms are you looking for?

Info on how to efile:

http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=118508,00.html

http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=118451,00.html

Forms and publications:

http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html?portlet=1

form 4868

Here's info on form 4886:

http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=98155,00.html

The form itself is a .pdf for download:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4868.pdf

Apparently there is no way to file this 6-month extension of time to file online:

http://www.irs.gov/faqs/faq-kw49.html

"..you can electronically file your return after April 15th. Electronically filed tax returns are accepted until October 15th. However, for your return to be considered timely after April 15, you must file  Form 4868 (PDF), an  Application for Automatic Extension of Time to File, on or before April 15th."

if you click the link in my question and read that paragraph it says you can file form 4886 online.
I'll just call them or send it in thru the mail.

Hi nickg5,

When I clicked the link you have all i got was this error:

Your File Request Results
 INFORMATION ABOUT FILE FORMAT DESCRIPTIONS
You selected 0 file(s).

 
You must select a file before we process your request. Please use your back button to select a file and re-submit the form.
 

http://www.irs.gov/app/scripts/retriever.jsp
try the above...............it is giving me a choice of clicking on a link to the PDF file of that form and there I see the paragraph that says form 4868 can be E-filed.

it is still not working. you'd have to click forms and pubs on the left side, schroll down to form 4868 in the middle and click on that and then click on the next link to get to the PDF and the E-file part.

Good luck nickg5. I think it's reprehensible that the IRS teases taxpapers with verbiage about filing this extension online in many of their documents and then does not provide it.