Making a Franchise & Excise Estimated Payment

There are two ways to make an estimated payment:

Taxpayers with a logon will most likely want to make a payment using the Logon payment option.

Making a non-logon payment

Click Make an ACH Debit Payment or Make a Credit Card Payment
Click Next
For Account Type: Choose Franchise & Excise Tax
For Taxpayer ID Type: Select either FEIN or SOS
Taxpayer ID: Enter either the FEIN or the SOS number
Account ID Type: Select Account ID
Account ID: Input the Franchise & Excise Account numbers. Those using the account numbers issued prior to 6/1/2018 will need to put a zero before the nine digit account number
Input the Contact’s name, phone number, and email address
Click Next
Choose Estimated Payment
Click Next
Select the Bank Account Type (if making a credit card payment, the credit card information will be requested at the end)
Enter the Routing number and the Bank account number
Choose the Period (this should be the filing period end date you want the estimated payment to be credited towards). For example: You are making an estimated payment for your 2018 return and you have a fiscal year end of 12/31, you would select 12/31/2018.
Input and confirm the amount
Click Submit and enter you email address

Making a Logon Payment

Logon to TNTAP
Click Franchise & Excise Tax
Click Make a Payment (upper right section of the page under “I want to”)
Choose ACH Debit or Credit Card
Choose the Payment Channel or select “New” (If you have never saved a payment channel, you must enter all bank account information as prompted)
Change Payment Type to “Estimated Payment”
Choose the Period (this should be the filing period end date you want the estimated payment to be credited towards). For example: You are making an estimated payment for your 2018 return and you have a fiscal year end of 12/31, you would select 12/31/2018.
Input the amount and Confirm
Click Submit and enter your password

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