How to Fax Any Agency — the Right Number, the First Time

The IRS uses fax for specific forms, elections, and authorizations — but not for tax returns. This guide covers every form you can fax, the numbers, and how to receive faxes from the IRS.

Find the right IRS fax number for your form. Then send it right from this page — free for up to 10 pages.

The online EIN tool not working? Can't use it from outside the US? Fax your SS-4 and get your EIN in 4 business days — free, no fax machine needed.

Living, working, or filing outside the US? Your FaxTerra number is a US or Canadian number you can use from any country — fax the IRS, USCIS, banks, and more, and get the replies in your inbox.

Authorize a tax professional to access your IRS tax information. Fax Form 8821 directly to the IRS — free and instant.

Authorize a tax professional to represent you before the IRS. Fax Form 2848 directly to the IRS CAF Unit — free and instant.

Need a tax return transcript for a mortgage, loan, or FAFSA? Fax Form 4506-T to the IRS — free and instant.

Client needs your W-9? Fax it securely in under 2 minutes — free, no fax machine needed.

Don't have a fax machine? You don't need one. Get a fax number in about a minute and receive IRS documents directly to your email.

Lost your CP 575? Bank needs EIN verification? Call the IRS, provide a fax number, and receive your 147C letter in minutes — not 4-6 weeks by mail.

The CP 575 is issued once and never reissued. If you lost it, the IRS can fax you a Letter 147C replacement in minutes. Here's how.

Foreign-owned single-member LLC? Form 5472 must be filed by fax or mail — e-filing is not an option. Fax it free and get delivery confirmation as proof.

Deadline approaching? Fax your S-Corp election to the IRS and get delivery confirmation as proof of timely filing. Free, no fax machine needed.

Need Form 6166 to claim tax treaty benefits abroad? Submit Form 8802 by fax after paying on Pay.gov. Here's the complete process.

The IRS online EIN tool requires a US SSN or ITIN. If you don't have one, fax your SS-4 from anywhere in the world and get your EIN in 4 business days.

You faxed a form to the IRS. Is your transmission report enough to prove timely filing? Here's what IRC Section 7502 says — and how to protect yourself.

The extension to file 1099s and W-2s with the IRS (Form 8809) is submitted online or on paper. The extension to furnish statements to recipients is the one you fax. Here is how to do each correctly.

Acquisition of control or substantial change in capital structure? Form 8806 can only be submitted by fax — the IRS has discontinued mail submissions.

Did IRS Letter 12C put your tax return on hold for a missing Form 8962? Fax your response to the number printed on your letter from your phone or computer: no fax machine, free for up to 10 pages, with a delivery confirmation for your records.

The IRS does not accept 1040s, 1120s, 1065s, or other tax returns by fax. But certain elections, authorizations, and specialized forms must or can be filed by fax — with specific fax numbers.

Need to fax documents to the Canada Revenue Agency? Send them online from your phone or computer — no fax machine, no phone line. Free for your first pages each month, with delivery confirmation for your records.

Submit government forms by fax — IRS, Social Security, USCIS, VA, and state agencies. Free, fast, and reliable.

Send your claim to the right VA or DFAS fax line, and get your own number so their reply reaches you — not a shared machine. Free for small documents, no fax machine needed.

Responding to a Request for Evidence? USCIS accepts fax for specific case actions. Send to the number on your notice, and get a US number so they can reach you back — from any country.

SSA routes disability faxes to your local field or hearing office — not one national number. Here’s how to find yours, send your evidence for free, and get the reply back.

Neither program has one national fax number. Appeals, redeterminations, and enrollment go to the contractor, plan, or state agency that holds your case. Here is how to find yours.

Death-benefit claims, appeals, and follow-ups. Send to your insurer’s claims fax for free, and receive their determination on your own number — so nothing gets lost during a claim.

File court documents by fax quickly and reliably. Free fax service with delivery confirmation for your records.

Send contracts, affidavits, notarized documents, demand letters, and legal notices by fax — fast, reliable, and free.

Send personal medical records, prescriptions, and health documents by fax, free from any device. Start with the fax number for the hospital, lab, pharmacy, or insurer you are sending to.

Kaiser runs a separate Release of Information unit in each region, so the right fax number depends on which Kaiser entity holds your chart. Find yours below, then send it free from your phone or computer.

Quest takes the Patient Access Form by fax at one national number. Send your signed form free from your phone, and keep the delivery confirmation.

Labcorp publishes a fax line for billing documents and takes records requests a different way. Here is which is which, so your paperwork lands where it can actually be acted on.

CVS keeps prescription records and MinuteClinic visit records in different places, with a different fax number for each. Pick the right one, then send free from your phone.

Mayo Clinic runs Release of Information as one service across its campuses, at a single fax number. Send your signed request free, and keep the confirmation.

Cleveland Clinic takes Ohio records requests by fax, with a separate line for urgent after-hours requests. Send your signed authorization free from your phone.

Aetna prints a single national fax number on its Member Complaint and Appeal Form. Send your appeal free, and keep the delivery confirmation for the deadline.

Cigna prints two fax lines for its Central HIPAA Unit on the forms that request or release your health information. Send yours free from your phone.

Humana takes the Appeal or Grievance Form at one fax number for its Grievance and Appeals Department. Send it free, and keep the confirmation for the deadline.

UnitedHealthcare has no single member fax number. The right one depends on your plan, and UHC tells you where to find it. Here is how, plus the lines it publishes openly.

Anthem runs a separate plan in each state it serves, so the fax number depends on your state and plan type. Here is how to find yours.

There is no national Blue Cross Blue Shield fax number, because there is no national Blue Cross Blue Shield company. Here is how to find the one that belongs to your plan.

Optum Rx routes by request type: one line for a Part D appeal, another for a coverage determination or prior authorization. Send yours free from your phone.

Express Scripts accepts faxed prescriptions only from a doctor’s office, so a fax you send yourself will not be filled. Here is what actually works instead.

Caremark’s prescription fax line only accepts faxes from a prescriber, and member record requests go a different way. Here is what actually reaches someone.

Walgreens keeps prescription records and clinic records in different places, with a different fax number for each. Pick the right one, then send free from your phone.

Walmart publishes no fax number for pharmacy records requests. Here is the route Walmart does publish, and what to do if a request needs to move faster.

AdventHealth publishes a Health Information Management fax number for each campus, and several campuses share one line. Find the line for the facility that treated you, then send free from your phone or computer.

Tampa General set up one fax line specifically so patients can submit their own records requests. Send your signed form free from your phone and keep the delivery confirmation.

Costco publishes one fax line for releasing your pharmacy records and a separate one for the mail order pharmacy. Pick the one that matches what you are sending, then send free from your phone.

Accredo publishes a patient fax line and tells you exactly what it will accept on it. Match your document to the right line, then send free from your phone.

UPMC has no single records fax. Each hospital or regional Health Information Department runs its own Release of Information line. Find the one that treated you, then send free from your phone.

MD Anderson takes records requests through a single Release of Information office, at one fax number for the whole cancer center. Send your signed authorization free from your phone.

Wellcare routes by what you are asking for rather than by where you live, so a grievance, an appeal, and a coverage request each have their own line. Pick the right one, then send free from your phone.

Baylor Scott & White publishes one fax number for the whole system, plus a Health Information Management line at each hospital. Either works, and the system line is usually simpler.

Penn Medicine keeps records at the hospital that treated you, and publishes a fax number for each one. Find the hospital, then send your request free from your phone.

There is more than one Baptist Health, and they are separate organizations that happen to share a name. Find the one that treated you, then send your request free from your phone.

Mount Sinai Health System sends every record request to the hospital that holds the chart, and most of those hospitals publish a phone number instead of a fax. Find the right destination below, then send free from your phone or computer.

Three different health care organizations use the name Trinity Health, and the largest of them routes record requests to the regional ministry that treated you. Work out which one holds your chart, then send free from your phone or computer.

TRICARE publishes one national fax line, and it is for DEERS. Enrollment forms and claims route to the contractor for your region, so the right number depends on what you are sending and where you live.

Molina operates a separate plan in each state it serves, and the appeals and grievances fax is set by that state plan. Find yours below, then send free from your phone or computer.

Solis uses one form and one fax number for records, whether you are bringing prior images in or sending Solis images out. Send your signed form free from your phone, and keep the delivery confirmation.

Memorial Hermann publishes a fax line for imaging records and routes everything else through its Release of Information department by mail. Send the right form to the right place, free, from your phone or computer.

Orlando Health takes completed records-request forms at its Medical Records Department fax line. Send your signed authorization free from your phone and keep the delivery confirmation.

Mercy publishes a Health Information Management fax number for each of its hospitals, and several unrelated health systems also use the name. Work out which Mercy holds your chart, then send free from your phone or computer.

HealthPartners is a care system and an insurance plan, and the two hold different records with different fax numbers. Pick the side that has what you need, then send free from your phone or computer.

SSM Health lists a records contact for each of its hospitals across four states, and most of them publish a fax number. Find the one that holds your chart, then send free from your phone or computer.

Sutter processes records requests through one system office, so a single fax number covers the whole network. Send your signed authorization free from your phone and keep the delivery confirmation.

One corporate Release of Information line covers most of Atrium Health, including the Wake Forest Baptist facilities. A few sites keep their own number. Find yours below, then send free from your phone.

The Banner Health records fax is the one for provider offices, attorneys, and insurers. Patients have a different route. Here is which applies to you.

Corewell keeps records at the hospital that created them, so each site has its own Health Information Management fax. Find the one that holds your chart, then send free from your phone.

City of Hope releases records through Health Information Management, with a different fax line for each region it operates in. Pick the one that treated you, then send your signed authorization free from your phone.

Dignity Health keeps records at the facility that created them, so the right fax number depends on where you were treated. Find yours below, then send free from your phone.

M Health Fairview runs three records offices, and the right fax depends on where you were seen. Find yours below, then send your signed authorization free from your phone.

Oregon Health & Science University runs one Release of Information team for the whole system, so there is a single fax number. Send your signed request free from your phone.

One enterprise Release of Information line covers Novant Health, with South Carolina handled separately. Pick the right one, then send your signed form free from your phone.

Ascension routes every records request to the facility that treated you, and says so on its own forms. Here is how to get the right number, then send your signed request free from your phone.

Virginia Mason is now part of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, and records requests go to the Health Information Management team for the location that treated you. Pick the right line below, then send free from your phone or computer.

HonorHealth runs one Release of Information office for the network and a second line for Cancer Care records. Pick the one that matches your care, then send your signed form free from your phone.

IU Health publishes a Health Information Management fax number per hospital group rather than one number for the system. Find the group that treated you, then send your signed authorization free from your phone.

Allina Health runs one Release of Information office for every hospital and clinic in the system, so there is a single fax number to remember. Send your signed form free from your phone and keep the confirmation.

NYU Langone says a records request can be faxed, but it publishes a mailing address and a Release of Information email for each hospital rather than a fax number. Here is how to get the correct one, and how to send your form free once you have it.

Johns Hopkins Medicine runs a separate Health Information Management office at each of its hospitals, so the right destination depends on which one treated you. Howard County Medical Center publishes its number below. For any other Hopkins facility, here is how to get it from Hopkins directly.

Essentia Health runs one Health Information Management office in Duluth for its Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota sites, and takes signed authorization forms there by fax. Send yours free from your phone.

BayCare handles doctor's office records and hospital records through different departments, and only one of them publishes a fax number. Here is where your request should go, and how to send it free from your phone.

Geisinger runs one Centralized Release of Medical Information department for the whole system and lists two fax numbers into it. Send your signed authorization free from your phone and keep the confirmation.

Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women's, and the Mass General Brigham community hospitals now share one release form and one Release of Information fax line in Somerville. Send yours free from your phone.

Send signed transfer, rollover, title, claim, and loan paperwork by fax, free from any device. Start with the fax number for the bank, broker, insurer, or servicer you are sending to.

Send purchase agreements, offers, disclosures, and other real estate documents by fax — fast and free.

Fidelity has no general customer-service fax. The numbers below are the ones Fidelity prints on specific forms, each bound to one department. Find the one your form names, then send it free from your phone or computer.

The one fax number Vanguard prints on its own forms belongs to the Institutional Investor Group. Personal-investor paperwork goes another way. Here is which is which.

Schwab prints one intake number across its retail forms, and a separate one for Schwab Bank debit card disputes. Find the right one, then send free from your phone or computer.

Merrill routes faxes by what you are sending: forms to Document Processing, general documents to a second line, and the address verification letter to a third. Send yours free from your phone or computer.

E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley publishes one general fax number for account paperwork, and a separate line for senders outside the United States. Send yours free from your phone or computer.

The fax numbers Ameriprise publishes belong to RiverSource, its annuity company, and each has its own rules about what fax can carry. Brokerage paperwork goes through your advisor.

IBKR routes almost everything through the Client Portal. The fax numbers that exist are printed on specific forms, and each belongs to one department.

Wealthfront handles almost everything in the app. The one fax number it publishes sits on the estate paperwork, where the documents cannot be uploaded by the person they belong to.

Transamerica is several businesses with separate processing centers, and each has its own fax. Match your form to the right one before you send.

MetLife runs a different processing unit for each kind of claim, and each has its own fax. Find the one your form names, then send it free from your phone or computer.

Voya prints one number across its workplace retirement plan forms, from rollovers to required minimum distributions. Check your own form first, then send free from your phone.

Empower publishes one fax number, and it belongs to the beneficiary claim channel. Every other form carries the fax number for the service center that handles your plan.

TIAA publishes one fax number for documents, right on its contact page. One condition decides whether your form qualifies for it.

Principal prints a fax number on its retirement plan forms and a different one for group benefits claims. Match the line to the product before you send.

The fax numbers Prudential publishes belong to annuity service, and which one you need depends on who holds your contract.

Equitable splits its annuity paperwork across two processing offices, each with its own fax. The right one depends on your product, not on the Equitable name.

Brighthouse publishes one fax number for service requests on annuity and life policies, and tells you exactly what to write on the cover page.

The fax number MassMutual prints on its service form is a life insurance line. Retirement plan paperwork is not faxed here any more.

Nationwide does not publish a general retirement fax number. Its own forms carry the destination, and this page asserts no number that Nationwide does not print.

DFAS runs two separate offices, one for retirees and one for survivors and annuitants, and they publish a separate fax number for each. They do not share a queue, so the line you pick decides which case file your pages land in.

USAA has no general customer-service fax. It prints two numbers on its own forms, one for power of attorney paperwork and one for bank documents. Send yours free from your phone or computer.

Bank of America has no general customer-service fax. Each published number belongs to one team, and sending to the wrong one delays your paperwork. Find the right line, then send free from your phone.

The fax numbers Capital One publishes are all on the banking side: correspondence, name changes, and tax forms. Card and auto paperwork takes a different route. Send yours free from your phone.

Navy Federal has no single fax number. Each team has its own line, most of them local Vienna, VA numbers, and a form sent to the wrong one gets set aside rather than forwarded.

Wells Fargo publishes no general customer-service fax. Each line below belongs to one team and takes one kind of document. Send yours free from your phone or computer.

Chase has no general customer-service fax. The numbers it does publish are department intake lines, several of them local Columbus and Dayton numbers. Find yours, then send free from your phone.

U.S. Bank publishes its fax numbers one knowledge-base article at a time, each tied to a single task. Here are the five, what each accepts, and how to send free from your phone.

The fax numbers Citi publishes live on individual forms: a debit card dispute, a commercial card dispute, a Payment Safeguard claim. Personal credit card disputes take a different route entirely.

Every fax number Truist publishes sits on a mortgage or home equity servicing form. There is no general customer-service fax, and several common requests have no fax route at all.

Fifth Third keeps its fax numbers inside collapsed FAQ answers rather than on a contact page. Here are the five it publishes, what each accepts, and how to send free from your phone.

Huntington lists fax numbers across its contact, mortgage, auto and military pages. Each belongs to one team. Find the right one, then send free from your phone or computer.

M&T publishes one of the fuller mortgage fax directories among large banks, with a separate line for payoffs, tax bills, insurance, hardship, estates and SCRA. Send yours free from your phone.

Regions publishes more fax numbers than most banks, most of them mortgage servicing lines in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Find the queue you need, then send free from your phone.

Citizens publishes three fax numbers, all tied to a specific request. One important form says outright that faxed documents will not be accepted, so check before you send.

PenFed is one of the few large institutions that still publishes a general fax number for member forms, and it publishes two. Departmental lines cover mortgage, hardship and insurance.

Ally runs the bank, the auto lender and the brokerage as separate operations with separate fax numbers. The document decides the number, not the brand.

Synchrony publishes a fax number on the form that requires one rather than listing a general customer-service line. Here is what each published line handles, and how to send your paperwork free from a phone or a computer.

Discover prints a fax number on the form that needs one. The published lines cover Discover Bank deposits, estate and power of attorney paperwork, and Personal Loans. Here is which is which, and how to send yours free.

Barclays US cards are issued by Barclays Bank Delaware, which publishes separate fax lines for general Card Services correspondence, billing disputes and fraud investigations. Here is which one your document belongs on.

American Express publishes two fax destinations: one for supporting documents on a billing dispute, and one for estate paperwork on an Amex National Bank savings account. Here is which is which, and how to send yours free.

TransUnion does not publish a fax number for consumer credit disputes. Here is the route TransUnion does publish, how to check any fax number you are given, and what a dispute packet should contain.

Early Warning is the bank-owned consumer-reporting company behind account-verification reports and Zelle. It publishes one fax line for consumer file disclosures, disputes and identity-theft documentation.

After a disaster loan is disbursed, servicing moves to one of two SBA centers. Each publishes its own fax number, and the one that serves you depends on where your loan is administered.

Rocket Mortgage publishes a single servicing fax, on its disclosures page, for written requests about your loan. Send yours free from your phone or computer and keep the delivery receipt.

Freedom Mortgage does not list a fax on its main contact page. The numbers below come from Freedom’s own servicing contact bulletin, split by department.

PennyMac routes documents to three different fax lines depending on what you are sending. Pick the right one below, then send free from your phone or computer.

Mr. Cooper splits faxed documents between its Research team and its modification department. Send yours to the right one, free, from a phone or computer.

Carrington publishes a separate fax line for each servicing department. Match your document to the right one below, then send it free from your phone or computer.

Shellpoint publishes two fax lines, and they differ by a single digit. Check yours against the labels below before you send.

Westlake publishes fax numbers for title work and nothing else. Here are the two lines, what belongs on each, and where the other requests actually go.

American Honda Finance publishes a single fax, printed on the lease payoff paperwork. Here is what belongs on it and where everything else goes.

GM Financial publishes one fax on its contact page. Send your title or account document there free from a phone or computer, and keep the delivery receipt.

Credit Acceptance publishes two fax lines, both in its customer FAQ: one for title work, one for estate documentation. Send yours free from a phone or computer.

Bridgecrest, the servicer for DriveTime and Carvana loans, publishes three fax lines. Match your document to the right one, then send free from a phone or computer.

Exeter publishes a dedicated insurance fax, which is the line most insurance agents are looking for, plus a customer service line. Send yours free from a phone or computer.

Ford Credit publishes no general fax number for customers. This page prints none, and shows the routes Ford does publish for getting documents to the right team.

MOHELA publishes its fax numbers by loan program, so the line you need depends on whether your loans are Direct or FFEL. Send your form free from a phone or computer.

Nelnet prints a fax number on its forbearance form, for Enrollment Processing. Here is what belongs on it and how to confirm the right line for federal servicing documents.

Aidvantage’s contact page is an application that loads in your browser, so its fax number cannot be quoted from a verifiable page. Here is how to get the current number and send your form.

Edfinancial moved to a studentaid.gov address, and the fax numbers that circulate online predate the move. Here is how to get the current one before you send a federal form.

Sallie Mae publishes a single fax, for its bank operations team. Here is what that line covers, and what Sallie Mae asks you to upload instead.

Switching fax services does not have to mean handing out a new number. Porting moves the number you already publish to a new provider, and the number keeps working the whole time. Here is what the process involves, what makes it fail, and how to move a US or Canada number to FaxTerra for free.

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Plenty of services advertise a free fax number. The offer usually means a trial, a shared line, or a number with tight limits. Here is how those offers work, what FaxTerra gives you free (sending: 10 pages a month), and what a dedicated number of your own costs when you need one.

A fax number can live online instead of on a machine. Faxes sent to your FaxTerra number arrive as PDFs in your inbox, an email tells you the moment one lands, and there is no hardware, phone line, or paper anywhere. Setup takes about a minute.

Two different jobs share these names. Email to fax means a document sitting in your email needs to reach a fax machine; that is free at FaxTerra. Fax to email means faxes sent to you should land where you read email; that takes a number of your own. Each direction has its answer below, sending first.