Tax Documents

UPLOAD tax documents from your most recently completed tax year with all schedules, and forms included as a 🗎 SCANNED PDF

  • The most recently completed year of taxes is REQUIRED

  • If you filed a tax extension for your most recent tax year, ⬆️ UPLOAD both your filed tax return and the extension form (e.g., IRS Form 7004). 

    • 🔗Preference will be given to businesses that were in operation in 2021. 

    • Uploading 2021 tax documents is necessary to receive a preference point.   

    • A business who experienced a financial hardship in last two years according to filed tax returns, gets + 1 preference point. 

    • According to DEED, financial hardship is defined as 10% or greater decrease in gross revenue or a decrease in net income. 

    • Demonstrating a loss of revenue is necessary to receive a preference point. 

  • The Business Name on the application must ◾◾ MATCH the Business Name on the uploaded taxes.  

    a. If you are a Sole Proprietor without a separate Business Name, the name on your application must ◾◾ MATCH the name on your tax return (1040 Schedule C). Whether you use your Business Name or your legal name, it must ◾◾ MATCH.  

  • Tax documents must include ALL pages of your filed tax return. 

  • ⬆️ Upload the same tax return that was sent to the IRS, displaying the Primary Applicant’s full TIN/ EIN or SSN on the return.

  • Acceptable tax forms include the ones listed below. These are the only tax documents we will accept, unless you are a nonprofit submitting a 990 or 990EZ

    a. 1040 Schedule C* 

    *For those with Multiple Schedule C Tax Documents, see section 6b. for instructions. 

    b. 1120-C 

    c. 1120-S 

    d. 1120 

    e. 1065 

  • Home-based businesses must have claimed a “business use of home” deduction under IRS Section 280A(c)(1) to be eligible. 

  • See 🔗Tax Form Reference for home-based business deductions per business structure. 

  • 🚫WE CANNOT ACCEPT “passive” income (i.e. rental income, property income, or real-estate income). A value on the revenue line is required, and revenue must be listed on one of the uploaded tax forms.  

Sample Tax Document (1)

Sample Tax Document (2)

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