If you are visually challenged or use a screen-reader, please read the accessibility section before reviewing the Overview of display modes.
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Overview
The Tax Calendar displays tax deposit and filing due dates. A form to be filed or a deposit to be made by a particular date is called an "event" on that date.
There are several display modes which allow you to tailor the Tax Calendar display:
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Full month
"Full month" mode shows events in the current month beginning on the first day of the month.
In this mode, a set of controls appears at the left side of the banner at the top of the Tax Calendar.
These controls let you select the next or previous month or year.
In addition, "Full month" mode provides an optional calendar-month grid of the weeks and days in the month.
Days on which Tax Calendar events occur are shown in bold face in the grid.
The grid can be toggled on and off by either clicking the grid icon in the controls at the top of the page or by pressing the letter G on the keyboard.
If your display is wide enough to display the event list to the right of the grid, clicking on a cell in the grid for a date with events
will cause event on that date to be highlighted in the list. If you click on a date with no events, nothing is highlighted in the event list.
On a device with a narrow display, such as a smart phone, only the events on the selected date are listed below the grid. If a date with no events is selected,
a message is shown below the grid indicating that there are no events on that date.
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Future events
Instead of using "Full month" with its interactive controls, you can choose to display a simple list of upcoming events beginning with today's date.
You can simply specify the number of events to list. As an example, you could choose to have the Tax Calendar show only the next 5 events regardless of their dates.
Note that if the last event occurs on a date with multiple events, all of those events are listed.
Alternatively, you can specify a number of days, weeks, months or years. With this approach you could, for example, configure the Tax Calendar to show only events in the
next 2 weeks.
We recommend that individuals using accessibility tools such as screen readers consider using the "Future events" mode
because it provides a concise list of events without the clutter introduced by the calendar-month controls.
Accessibility for visually impaired users
The Tax Calendar has been redesigned to improve support for visually impaired users.
The default timeframe setting is "Full Month." This presents events for a month beginning on the first day of the month.
This setting also displays a set of controls at the top of the main Tax Calendar page. These controls let the user select next or previous month or year.
Finally, Full month mode permits the user to display a visual date grid. The grid does not contain event data, but it does allow a user to visually locate dates which have events.
Because "Full Month" can display all events for a month, including previous events in the month, it may deliver a long list of events. You would have to read through these
to find the few events with upcoming due dates on which you want to focus.
We recommend that visually impaired users consider using a timeframe setting which displays a limited number of events beginning with today's date.
For example, selecting the Events unit type radio button in "Timeframe" section of Settings and choosing 3 as the number of units will cause the
Tax Calendar to display the next 3 events from today's date forward, regardless of the month in which they fall.
Keyboard shortcuts
These shortcuts are available on the main Tax Calendar
Shortcuts usable only when "Full Month" is selected as timeframe in Settings.
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Press
D
to
Set focus to Date calendar grid
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Press
G
to
Toggle month grid on and off
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Press
L
to
Set focus to event List
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Press
M
to
Set focus to previous/next month controls at the top of the page
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Press
N
to
Select Next event
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Press
P
to
Select Previous event
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Press
T
for
Return to Today's date
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Arrow keys
If "Full Month" display is selected in Settings, a set of controls is displayed in the upper left corner of the page.
In this mode, arrow key assignments are:
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Press
Ctrl + Left arrow
for
Previous year
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Press
Left arrow
for
Previous month
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Press
Right arrow
for
Next month
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Press
Ctrl + Right arrow
for
Next year
When "Full Month" display is selected, you can also choose to display a Date grid. This grid appears before the event list.
It displays a row for each week in the current month. Cells within the row display the individual dates in the week.
The date number is shown in bold face text if there are Tax events on that date.
When the Date grid is selected, arrow key assignments are:
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Press
Down arrow
for
Next week
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Press
Left arrow
for
Previous date
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Press
Right arrow
for
Next date
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Press
Up arrow
for
Previous week
Settings
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Event types
- General
- General events.
- Monthly Depositor
- Events which apply to organizations which make monthly payroll deposits.
- Semiweekly Depositor
- Events which apply to organizations which make semiweekly payroll deposits.
- Excise
- Events which apply to organizations subject to excise taxes.
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Display modes
The timeframe or the number of events you want included in your list.
You can choose to see all events that occur in your chosen number of days, weeks, months, or years.
For example, you could choose to list all events that occur in the next 2 weeks.
Instead of specifying the time period, you can choose how many upcoming events you want to see.
For example, if you choose to see the next 3 upcoming events, you would see that number of events,
regardless of how far in the future they occur.
Note: If more than one event occurs on the same day, you will see all events which occur on that day.
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Include links
Check "Include links" to display a link for each event to an IRS.gov page which contains information about the forms to be filed.
Printing
The Tax Calendar provides a means of printing a single month at a time.
The printed output includes a calendar grid for the days of the month.
Dates on the grid which have Tax events are shown in larger, bold type.
Event dates and descriptions are listed below the grid.
To print:
- Choose "Print events for a month" from the Tools menu.
- Select the desired Year and Month from the dropdown lists on the Print month page.
- Click the "Fetch events for this month" button.
- When the list of events is displayed, choose Print from your browser's File menu to print the month's events.
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