I here is how I do it, I go EFTPS, click on make payment, then it takes to Login.gov, my information automatically appears, I request for the code to be sent by text, I enter the code, takes me back to EFTPS website, I again click on make payment, then I enter my clients FEIN, PIN and password and I am in.
This is why I recommend that everyone take their RMD no later than September, so that there is time to take any needed RMD by 12/31. I learned this after a client died late in the year and normally took their RMD in December, and it was not possible to get the RMD out on time.
(Oldy but goody, adjusted for clean speech - extrapolate on your own)
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There was a case presented in my Ethics course this week that I'm still laughing about. A CPA paid an IRS agent $1,250 in a bribe. Not bad enough? He told the clients he was representing that the IRS agent wanted $2k, which the clients paid him and he pocketed the difference (and needless to say didn't report on his own tax return). I didn't really need an ethics course to instruct me not to try either maneuver.