Hi I wanted to take a second to show you how easy it is to pay your tax bill online the first thing you'll want to do is go to irs.gov and then from the home screen up on this tab you'll just click on the payments tab once you're taken here you'll see you've got two different options you can do an IRS direct pay which pays directly out of your checking account and is free of charge or you can pay with a debit or credit card if you choose the pay by card method you're going to see that there's some additional fees associated with pain for your tax bill with a debit or credit card there is a flat fee and then there's also a percentage of the total transaction fee so this is the method you'll want to do you'll you'll select a processor that you're going to want to use based on their fees and if you click this link it'll actually take you to an external site where you'll be able to pay that tax bill however I'm not going to go through that process but if you do want to do it you'll just click on one of these three links I'm going to go back to the IRS direct pay where you can actually pay directly from your checking account so you'll click this button and this will take you to screen where you've got two options you can either make a payment or you can look up a payment looking up a payment is nice especially if you've made quarterly payments throughout the year you can come here and see how much you paid each quarter so that your records you know you can verify that your records match the IRS as records to make a payment you'll click on this this button here which will take you to another screen where you've got a few options you can apply the payment to the 1040 the 1040a or 1040ez that's your actual year-end tax file you can apply the payment towards an estimated payment or you can apply the payment towards a 1040x which is an amended tax return we'll just do the 1040 a normal tax return so what you would do is apply the payment to the 1040 and then your reason for the payment you can either say if you've got an installment agreement if you're actually just paying for the tax return itself if maybe this is an estimated tax payment so let's just do a tax and let's say you're paying your 2015 tax bill you click on the tax year and then just click continue it will give you a confirmation screen to just verify that you are paying the 1040 for the 2015 tax year the next screen is just to verify your identity this is essentially you logging in and verifying who you are so you'll put in the year again
