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Failure-to-File Penalty. Also known as the âlate filing penalty,â this fee may be assessed if you do not file your tax return (or tax extension application) by the proper due date. This deadline is April 15 for most individual taxpayers, and March 15 for most businesses.lso known as the âlate payment penalty,â this fee may be assessed if you do not pay your income tax liability by the proper due date. This deadline is April 15 for most individual taxpayers, and March 15 for most businesses.
Normally the failure to file penalty is 5% and the failure to pay penalty is .5%, but the IRS reduces the failure to file penalty by .5% when these two are charged together. The maximum the combined penalty can be is 47.5% of the tax amount owed, as long as no tax fraud is involved.