Cannot file Q2 2021 Form 941

Let's make sure you'll be able to file and print your taxes for the 2nd Quarter, cfdc.

You'll have to ensure to keep your software and payroll updated so you'll have the latest features and fixes. To get payroll updates, follow the steps below. 

1. Select Employees, then select Get Payroll Updates.
2. Select the Download Entire Update checkbox.
3. Select Download Latest Update. An informational window appears when the download is complete.

Once done, double-check if you're already able to file the form. Sometimes, you'll encounter this error if QuickBooks is having an update. If you're still getting the same error, you'll want to file the form on the EFTPS website. To prepare and print Form 941, Schedule B, and Form 940, you can read through this article: Prepare your forms, and print and save them. Also, you can find information on the latest payroll update as well as earlier release updates: Find recent payroll updates.

Also, see this article for your future reference in preparing Form 941: How QuickBooks populates the 941.

Let us know if you have any other concerns about filing 941 forms. We'll always be right here to help.

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@cfdc wrote:

I am trying to print and file Form 941 for 2nd Quarter of 2021 and get the error message below:

Form 941: Employer Identification Number- Form 941 is a draft form and is not to be filed with the IRS. Final form will be available in a later release

 

When is this later release available? What do I do in the meantime? Is anyone else having this issue and know what I need to do?

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Just got off the phone with Intuit - form is not available yet (even though 6/24 updates does say that the 941 was updated).  I was told that form is still in Engineering, and they do not have a release date yet, but said we would receive an email and there will be a notification in QuickBooks when the new form is available.

So NOW it says.   IMPORTANT:   should be updated on 7/1/21  It wasn't there earlier obviously since that would of answered all our questions

Its 7/1/21 the start of the third quarter.  The form is still not available and that is unacceptable.  QB costs accountants too much money to have this level of poor service.  You try to get help and you have over an hour wait.  Why do they increase fees every year and service gets worse.  

Same problem here... Got the entire payroll update, and still getting the same message.

When will this form be available???

The 941 is available now. Do another payroll update, and the form should be good to go.

Hello all, 

I came to see why I couldn't file my 941 and am getting the same error.

I, too am disgusted at the level of ineptitude shown by our chosen accounting software. I am still unable to file the form. Here is a fillable PDF from IRS.gov that I can at least mail. I used the numbers from QB from the (unsubmitted) 941.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f941.pdf

This is not by far an acceptable solution, but for those who can't wait for the fix from intuit, it's available.

KJS sent me a reply about this same topic (can't find it now), which does not work.  Part of it says to go to the "File Forms Tab" under Other Activities in Payroll Setup -- There is no File Forms Tab or Other Activities. Furthermore, I already did the update of the tax tables  - multiple times - and still no Form 941 for second quarter. THIS IS BS.  Is there going to be a work around that works? Still waiting. And, of course, I have no way of replying to KJS because its a "no reply" email address. 

I can't figure out how to filr Q2 form.  Where can I get it?   Somehow forgot to file until I notice it missing when I filed Q3.   Now what???