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August 20, 2025
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CHARLOTTE, NOT cincinnati - attention CA resident

  • August 20, 2025
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1040ES payment for Q3 no longer go to the Cincinnati PO box.  This is a recent IRS change taking effect in Mid-July.

 

PO Box 1300 Charlotte. NC 28201-1300

 

SUPPORT  ---- PLEASE CHANGE ADDRESS AND ADVISE US ABOUT HOW TO OVERRIDE ADDRESSES.  Can an address for Q3 and Q4 be done globally - for all clients?

Best answer by BobKamman

What's happening here is that Treasury selects the bank that runs the lockbox operation -- currently, it's US Bank -- and then tells IRS what to tell its customers about mailing addresses.  The current contract doesn't expire until 2026, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who have been told to send checks to Cincinnati, so that address still works.  US Bank decided it would rather receive more mail at Charlotte and less at Cincinnati, and Treasury agreed with that.  Treasury told IRS to change its mailing instructions, but it's up to IRS to notify taxpayers.  Slipped through the cracks, during the reign of one of the seven commissioners this year.  But Cincinnati is still open and processing checks.  New vouchers should be printed with the Charlotte address.  Old ones don't need to be corrected.

And it's Armenia, not Albania

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Level 10
August 20, 2025
Kathi_at_Intuit
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August 20, 2025

Hi @strongsilence Thanks for the tag. We are aware and are putting out an update in the News and Updates for Lacerte. We will update this post so you have a link to it once it is posted. Thanks for your continued support in the community! Happy posting. 

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BobKamman
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Level 15
August 20, 2025

What's happening here is that Treasury selects the bank that runs the lockbox operation -- currently, it's US Bank -- and then tells IRS what to tell its customers about mailing addresses.  The current contract doesn't expire until 2026, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who have been told to send checks to Cincinnati, so that address still works.  US Bank decided it would rather receive more mail at Charlotte and less at Cincinnati, and Treasury agreed with that.  Treasury told IRS to change its mailing instructions, but it's up to IRS to notify taxpayers.  Slipped through the cracks, during the reign of one of the seven commissioners this year.  But Cincinnati is still open and processing checks.  New vouchers should be printed with the Charlotte address.  Old ones don't need to be corrected.

And it's Armenia, not Albania

Level 2
August 29, 2025

Very very messy IRS.  I had clients who were sending to Cincinnati lockbox and were returned to sender in July. Got word earlier this week from Spidell Pub. about the changes to Charlotte NC address.

So asking clients to update me if they received RTS and to update the address shown below.  

https://www.irs.gov/filing/where-to-file-addresses-for-taxpayers-and-tax-professionals-filing-form-1040-es

Believe the update on IRS website was published: Page Last Reviewed or Updated: 17-Jul-2025. 

Source: Wayback Machine on July 10th showed the old addresses published: Page Last Reviewed or Updated: 18-Dec-2024  

 

 

Level 4
August 30, 2025

But at least as of last week, if you go to the 1040-V form itself on the IRS website, it still lists the old addresses in the "where to file" section! 😑

Level 4
August 21, 2025

It goes beyond just CA residents and it's not only Charlotte -- 1040-ES go to Charlotte and 1040-V go to Louisville. See this post that I made last week after speaking to a representative at Lacerte:

https://accountants.intuit.com/community/lacerte-tax-discussions/discussion/fyi-irs-mailing-address-changes-lacerte-update-pending-no-more/00/333051