qbteachmt
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Let's recognize that everything is "just now being released" for any date in 2020. That doesn't mean you should be willing to no longer play safely on the internet. That means slowing down a bit and waiting for the resources.

"Alternatively, is it possible to post a PDF on this forum?"

The IRS is the source of 941, and you can get things from them safely, so we get it from the IRS. Not email on a public forum and potentially unsafe attachments. And since these dated forum topics will then have old links, it's not the right resource for later use, either. The IRS has the July revised form, and the July instructions which were just released last week. This is in those instructions:

"Don't use the July 2020 revision of Form 941 to report employment taxes for the first or second quarter of 2020. Use the April 2020 revision of Form 941 to report employment taxes for the second quarter of 2020, and use the January 2020 revision of Form 941 to report employment taxes for the first quarter of 2020."

They should make available any form you need to be using, obviously. When it should be noted that the IRS has links with the wrong content, then we wait for them to fix it. The -SS for the Q1 and Q2 seems to be what they are making available at every 2020 941 link I found. For instance, here:

https://www.irs.gov/downloads/irs-prior

It's the same portfolio. Here is a timely article that reviews the prior changes and the upcoming change, as well as explaining why you keep seeing the -SS version:

https://news.bloombergtax.com/payroll/form-941-to-be-further-revised-for-3rd-4th-quarters

And these media articles tend to have current links in them, relative to the article's content and dates.

I found the Jan 2020 revision, but this might not be what you should be using for the prior quarters, of course:

https://www.randyshardware.com/uploads/1/0/7/8/107835941/941.pdf

Google and the IRS show the 3rd quarter revisions (links):

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i941--2020.pdf

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f941.pdf

It's unfortunate that when help is being provided by peer users, that help is deemed "ridiculous."

Everyone deals with the same delays, conflicting releases, and outright confusing info. Having to wait a bit for a developing scenario to play itself out might be uncomfortable. After all, this is Oct, so you would think Q1 and Q2 941 forms already got filed. The 941X is going to be amended to meet the new CARES requirements. So you have yet another update to watch for.

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