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title: "Fast Casual: 3 Final-Hour Moves to Master This Year’s Shorter Tax-Filing Timeframe"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/6a3593f6-a3de-498f-82b7-13944d9a7fd2
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/fast-casual-3-final-hour-moves-to-master-this-years-shorter-tax-filing-timeframe-9612
category: "Fast casual"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Fast casual"
published: 2017-01-25T18:13:02.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:11:49.732Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/cde1bfcefc7cab85355a1d34db80f42b8613.jpg
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# Fast Casual: 3 Final-Hour Moves to Master This Year’s Shorter Tax-Filing Timeframe

**TL;DR:** Fast Casual provides tips to help businesses meet the new tax-filing deadline of January 31st. The deadline has been pushed up by two months from the previous March 30th deadline.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2017-01-25. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/fast-casual-3-final-hour-moves-to-master-this-years-shorter-tax-filing-timeframe-9612).*

## Story

Whereas businesses have historically been able to distribute 1099 and W-2 copies and file with the IRS or SSA by March 30th, the deadline has been pushed up to January 31st this year. That’s an entire two months less of time than businesses have had in the past. Gathering that many business owners might be scrambling to meet this new deadline, Fast Casual rounded up some tips to help businesses get taxes settled in time.

For one, Fast Casual warns business owners that there will be higher fines this year for missing deadlines. According to the publication, the penalty for not filing the correct returns by the due dates is based on when the correct forms are filed. Anothing thing to consider is double checking your information to avoid making typical mistakes, like dollar amounts, name spelling and Social Security numbers.

The final tips Fast Casual offers is to take advantage of cloud-based e-file services, which streamline the filing process.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- FastCasual (publication)
- IRS (regulator)
- tax filing (topic)
- SSA (regulator)
- deadline change (topic)
- irs rules (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/fast-casual-3-final-hour-moves-to-master-this-years-shorter-tax-filing-timeframe-9612). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/6a3593f6-a3de-498f-82b7-13944d9a7fd2).