Does it matter if a tax form submitted 3 days before the actual payment in quickbooks online?

Hi there, ka1959.

Thank you for visiting again the QuickBooks Community. I'll share different details on how tax payment works in QuickBooks.

QuickBooks Online tracks your payment due dates in one place so you can avoid late returns and extra fees. With this, making your tax payments and filing the necessary tax forms on time or before is an essential part of keeping you in compliance with the IRS and state agencies. Once it’s time to file, you can check what you owe first to make sure all the numbers look good. Then, you can use your up-to-date QuickBooks info to fill out your tax form. If you're referring to a sales tax payment and once you're done filing, it's time to keep your sales tax info in QuickBooks. That said, you can record your new tax payment in QuickBooks to zero out your sales tax so tax payable stays accurate.

Here's how:

1. Go to the Taxes menu on the left panel and choose sales tax.
2. Find the return you just filed. Then, select View return.
3. If you paid an older return, select the From dropdown and choose a past month. Then, select Refresh.
4. To record your tax payment, Select a filing method. Then, select File manually.
5. Fill in the payment details likes, Tax amount, Payment date, Bank account
6. Choose Record payment.
7. Your return is now marked as paid. Select Back to sales tax center.

To see additional information, you can click this article: File your sales tax return and record tax payment in QuickBooks Online.

If you mean to payroll tax payment, you can click this article to see different information about tax payment and form filing questions: Get answers to your payroll tax payment and filing questions.

Please refer to this article to view steps on how you can adjust and delete sales tax payments in the sales tax Center: Manage sales tax payments in QuickBooks Online.

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