- May 12, 2015
A weight gain in humans and as well as in the trucks for truckers will always call for extra care in case of humans to reduce weight and mean extra taxes through IRS form 2290 for truckers respectively. The increase in the gross weight in truckloads will always demand additional tax increase according to the IRS HVUT scale. The IRS tax slabs as fixed up will determine the different increase in HVUT structure as corresponding to the increase in gross weight of the vehicle.
The truckers normally have to report towards HVUT 2290 when the trucks weigh 55,000 pounds or more and this will progressively result in increased tax payments to IRS when the gross weight keeps on increasing pushing the payable taxes to different tax slabs according to the IRS HVUT rules. IRS would never say or advise truckers that they should only carry this much weight on their trucks.
But IRS is very clear in its Heavy Vehicle Use Tax rules stating that truckers should determine the right tax slab according to the increased gross weights they carry on their heavy vehicles and should report the right tax amount as applicable and payable to IRS through HVUT Form 2290. Truckers can discreetly weight loads as suitable to their business growth opportunities in carrying such increased gross weight loads for their customers and after all, truckers charge these transportation amounts including the hidden tax costs from such customers in delivering the services for their satisfaction. Hence the increased tax payment in case of increased gross weights as per the IRS tax slab should be followed up strictly.
The different checkpoints as organized and run by the state and federal transportation authorities will monitor and reveal the factual gross weights through heavy vehicles weighing machines that stand as a testimony for IRS that these heavy vehicles carry different increased gross weights through State and Federal roadways and highways.
Therefore when truckers fail to comply with the right tax slabs for the right tax amounts as determined to be payable to IRS, then follows the IRS unleashes the pain on truckers by making them pay more increased tax payments both in the form of interest and penalties. One should not ignore this basic principle when running a trucking business and the over-looking IRS rules in HVUT 2290 instructions will only make your business experiencing the pain and not the gain.
