How to Make Your Tax Payments – Balance Due and Estimated Payments

Below you will find instructions on how to make your Federal and Indiana state Balance Due payments online as well as how to make your Federal and Indiana Estimated Tax payments online. These instructions do not require an account to be set up.

Please note that Balance Due payments are the taxes you might owe upon completing your tax return. Conversely, Estimated Tax payments do not apply to everyone. These are paid by people who are not withholding on their income and are not typically standard W-2 employees.

Federal Filing Instructions

1. Have the info from your previous year’s return handy to verify your identity.
2. Click here to visit the IRS payment website. 
3. Select “DirectPay with bank account.” You can choose to pay by card or digital wallet, but there are additional fees to do so.
4. Select “Pay individual tax.”
5. Select “Make a payment.”
6. For Balance Due payments, select “Apply Payment to > Income Tax – Form 1040.”
7. For Estimated Tax payments, select “Apply Payment To > 1040ES (for 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ).”
8. Select “Continue” two separate times.
9. Select “Tax Period for Payment: YEAR.”
10. Verify your identity using the previous year’s return information.
11. Agree to Privacy Act and Paperwork Reduction Act. Select “Continue.”
12. Enter payment amount and banking information.
13. Enter email address for confirmation. Select “Continue.”
14.  Select “I Agree.”
15. Under Electronic Signature, type your first name, last name, and SSN.
16. Click the box to “Accept the Debit Authorization Agreement.”
17.  Print the confirmation for your records. You will also receive email confirmation from IRS Direct Pay.

State Filing Instructions (Indiana)

1. Have the info from your previous year’s return handy to verify your identity.
2. Click here to visit Indiana’s payment website. 
3. Select “Make a payment” in the middle of the page.
4. Under “Non-bill payments,” select “Bank payment (no fee).”
5. Select “Individual.”
6. Under ID type, select SSN and enter SSN for the first person listed on your tax return. Select “Next.”
7. For Balance Due payments, select “Payment > Return Payment.”
8. For Estimated Tax payments, select “Payment type > Estimated payment.”
9. Select the filing period for the current tax period.
10. Enter your county of residence on January 1.
11. Enter the desired estimated payment amount and email. Select “Next.”
12.  Input your banking information. Select “Next.”
13.  Review and confirm summary. Select “Submit.”
14.  Print the page for your records. You will also receive an INTIME Payment Confirmation via email.

Want to know more about tax estimates and why you should pay them online? Click here to read our blog, “What are tax estimates?”

Have questions about this process or if you should be paying estimated tax payments? Give us a call and learn how we can help you complete these steps. Click here for contact information.

Blog by Christie Crockett, MBA, AFSP – Tax Accountant

Learn more about Christie and the rest of the Storen Financial team here.