Notice code 11 — Failure to Deposit - We charged a penalty because it appears that you didn’t deposit the correct amo…

Failure to Deposit - We charged a penalty because it appears that you didn’t deposit the correct amounts of tax on time. Also, your Record of Federal Tax Liability was incomplete or illegible, or the liability amounts you reported didn’t equal the net taxes for the tax period. Therefore, we averaged the total tax liability and equally distributed it throughout the tax period. We applied your depo…

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Failure to Deposit - We charged a penalty because it appears that you didn’t deposit the correct amounts of tax on time. Also, your Record of Federal Tax Liability was incomplete or illegible, or the liability amounts you reported didn’t equal the net taxes for the tax period. Therefore, we averaged the total tax liability and equally distributed it throughout the tax period. We applied your deposits to the averaged liabilities in the date order we received them. We figured the penalty on any tax not deposited, deposited late or not deposited in the correct amounts. For deposits due after 12/31/89, the penalty rate is as follows: 2% - deposits made 1 to 5 days late, 5% - deposits made 6 to 16 days late, 10% - deposits made 16 or more days late, but on or before the 10th day after the date of the first notice we sent you asking for the tax you owe. When you don’t pay the amount you owe within ten days of the date of the first notice we sent you, we automatically increase the penalty rate to 15% and include the additional penalty in the next bill.