🧾 Where to Fax Form 2553: IRS Fax Numbers by State

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Which Form 2553 Fax Number to Use

The IRS sends Form 2553 to one of two centers, and the choice depends on one thing: the state where the corporation's principal business, office or agency is located. Not where the owners live, and not where you are sending from.

A Delaware or Wyoming company run by an owner in Lahore or London is common, and the rule works the same way: look at where the corporation's principal business, office or agency is. For faxing other IRS forms, see our guide to faxing the IRS.

Form 2553 Fax Number by State

The same chart, one row per state, so you can find yours at a glance. It follows the IRS "where to file" page for Form 2553.

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Form 2553 Deadline

Form 2553 must be filed no more than 2 months and 15 days after the beginning of the tax year the election is to take effect, or at any time during the tax year before it. Count from the first day of that tax year. For a calendar-year corporation that wants S status from January 1, the window closes in mid-March.

Fax is the quickest way to meet that window from abroad, because nothing has to cross an ocean in an envelope. Send it as early as you can, not on the last afternoon, so a busy line or a scan problem does not cost you the year.

Missed the Deadline: Late Election Relief

A late Form 2553 can still be accepted under Rev. Proc. 2013-30. The relief applies within 3 years and 75 days of the date the election was meant to take effect, and the corporation must have reasonable cause for filing late.

To use it, write "FILED PURSUANT TO REV. PROC. 2013-30" at the top of page 1 of Form 2553, and explain the reasonable cause as the form asks. Then fax it to the same number for your state as an on-time election. That heading is how the IRS knows you are asking for relief under that procedure.

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What to Write and What to Send

Make sure every signature and every consent the form requires is on it before you scan. A fax only carries what is on the page, so it cannot fix a line that was never signed. Sign in ink, scan the pages flat at good resolution, and send a PDF rather than phone photos.

Put a short cover page on top: the corporation's legal name and EIN, "Form 2553, Election by a Small Business Corporation," the tax year the election starts, a contact name, phone and email, and the page count. Add the corporation's name and EIN at the top of any attached statement pages. If you still need an EIN, start with our guide to getting an EIN from abroad.

How to Fax Form 2553 From Outside the US

Both numbers are US numbers. Select United States, then type 8558877734 for Kansas City or 8552147520 for Ogden: 10 digits, no leading 1, no spaces. Upload up to 10 files in one fax, check the price and pay. Our guide to faxing a US number covers the format in more detail.

The price is $2.99 for up to 3 pages and $0.99 for each extra page. If your cover page and form come to 5 pages, the total is $4.97. You see the total before paying, there is no account, nothing is printed on your form, and a failed fax is refunded automatically.

Fax Form 2553 to the IRS, $2.99

Your Record and the IRS Answer

The confirmation email shows the IRS number, the page count and the exact time the fax went through, in US Eastern Time. That is your dated record that it went through. Keep it with a copy of the faxed form, because if the IRS ever asks when the election was sent, those two together answer it.

Expect the IRS answer in writing, addressed to the corporation. If an IRS employee offers to fax you a copy of a letter and you have no fax line abroad, our sister service GetAFax.com gives you a US fax number for 24 hours for $5, and the fax arrives in your email. Foreign-owned companies often have more forms to send: see faxing Form 5472.

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