A date on this page is one of two things. Published means the IRS has printed that exact date for this filing season, and the source is named beside it. Moves means the IRS has not printed the date for this season yet. Where the date in the law falls on a weekend, the page shows the next business day, with the law's date beneath it: that part is arithmetic. Where it falls on a legal holiday, the page keeps the law's date, because next year's list of holidays is not out, and neither is the edition of the IRS instructions that would confirm either. The current General Instructions for Certain Information Returns are still the 2025 edition.
Choose a form to see its furnishing and filing dates. For income-tax payments and the return itself, choose all deadlines.
Download calendar dates (.ics)
Calendar files include published dates and calculated weekend moves. Unpublished moves are marked tentative. Holiday-dependent dates without a settled day are excluded. Verify IRS updates before relying on a calendar reminder.
Paying tax through the year
Nobody withholds anything from a 1099, so the year is paid in four pieces. These four are published and exact.
| Date | What is due | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2026 Wednesday |
1st estimated tax payment Covers 1 January to 31 March. Quarterly estimated tax calculator |
Published
IRS Form 1040-ES (2026) Calendar (.ics) |
| 15 June 2026 Monday |
2nd estimated tax payment Covers 1 April to 31 May — two months, not three. Quarterly estimated tax calculator |
Published
IRS Form 1040-ES (2026) Calendar (.ics) |
| 15 September 2026 Tuesday |
3rd estimated tax payment Covers 1 June to 31 August. Quarterly estimated tax calculator |
Published
IRS Form 1040-ES (2026) Calendar (.ics) |
| 15 January 2027 Friday |
4th estimated tax payment Covers 1 September to 31 December. You can skip it if you file the return by 1 February 2027 and pay everything with it. Quarterly estimated tax calculator |
Published
IRS Form 1040-ES (2026) Calendar (.ics) |
| 1 March 2027 Monday |
Farmers and fishermen: file and pay instead If at least two-thirds of gross income for 2025 or 2026 came from farming or fishing, filing the 2026 return and paying in full by this date means no estimated payments were required at all. Schedule F · Read the rule |
Published
IRS Form 1040-ES (2026) Calendar (.ics) |
What should reach you
The forms a payer owes you. If one is late or wrong, the deadline is what you measure it against.
| Date | What is due | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 February 2027 Monday In the law: 31 January 2027, a Sunday |
Most 1099s furnished to you 1099-NEC, 1099-K and the rest of the January set. Form 1099-NEC |
Moves
The law says 31 January, a Sunday in 2027, so the date moves to the next business day, Monday 1 February. The IRS has not yet printed the 2027 date; its own Form 1040-ES (2026) already uses 1 February 2027 for filing a return in the same week. IRS General Instructions for Certain Information Returns Calendar (.ics) |
| 15 February 2027 Monday |
Broker and real estate forms furnished to you 1099-B, 1099-DA, 1099-S, and 1099-MISC reporting certain boxes. Form 1099-B |
Moves
15 February 2027 is the third Monday of February, which is Washington's Birthday — a legal holiday for this purpose. The next business day applies, and the IRS has not published the 2027 date. IRS General Instructions for Certain Information Returns |
If you paid anybody
The year you hire somebody, January stops being a month where forms only arrive.
| Date | What is due | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 February 2027 Monday In the law: 31 January 2027, a Sunday |
1099-NEC to the contractor and to the IRS One date covers both copies. There is no later date for the IRS copy the way there is for other forms. Form 1099-NEC · Read the rule |
Moves
The law says 31 January, a Sunday in 2027, so the date moves to the next business day, Monday 1 February. The IRS has not yet printed the 2027 date. IRS Instructions for Forms 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC Calendar (.ics) |
| 1 March 2027 Monday In the law: 28 February 2027, a Sunday |
Other 1099s to the IRS, on paper Only if you are filing fewer than ten information returns in total. |
Moves
The law says 28 February, a Sunday in 2027, so the date moves to the next business day, Monday 1 March. The IRS has not yet printed the 2027 date. IRS General Instructions for Certain Information Returns Calendar (.ics) |
| 31 March 2027 Wednesday |
Other 1099s to the IRS, electronically Required once you file ten or more information returns of all types counted together. Read the rule |
Published
IRS General Instructions for Certain Information Returns Calendar (.ics) |
The return itself
Where every figure on this site ends up.
| Date | What is due | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2027 Thursday |
Form 1040 for tax year 2026 With Schedule C, Schedule SE and whatever else the year needed. Schedule C |
Moves
15 April 2027 is a Thursday and does not move on its own. The IRS has not published the 2027 calendar, and District of Columbia Emancipation Day has moved this date in other years. IRS Publication 509 — Tax Calendars |
The rule that moves them
“Generally, if a due date for performing any act for tax purposes falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the act is considered to be performed timely if it is performed no later than the next day that isn't a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.”
Which makes the list of legal holidays part of the answer. Publication 509 prints 2026:
- New Year's Day (January 1)
- Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 19)
- Washington's Birthday (February 16)
- District of Columbia Emancipation Day (April 16)
- Memorial Day (May 25)
- Juneteenth National Independence Day (June 19)
- Independence Day observed (July 3)
- Labor Day (September 7)
- Indigenous Peoples' Day (October 12)
- Veterans Day (November 11)
- Thanksgiving Day (November 26)
- Christmas Day (December 25)
The 2027 list is not published. A weekend is certain, so the dates that land on one already show the Monday they move to; a date that lands on a holiday keeps the date in the law until the list is out. That is the reason this page will be updated rather than left to age.
This is educational material, not tax advice. Deadlines differ for fiscal-year filers, for people abroad, and in disaster areas the IRS postpones them by announcement.