Fax Guides

The IRS takes fax for EIN applications, S-Corp elections, authorizations, and some compliance filings, never for tax returns. Fax numbers for each form, and how to receive the IRS's faxed replies.

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

Two routes get an EIN to you by fax: the IRS faxes a new one back after you fax Form SS-4, or an agent faxes Letter 147C during a phone call to prove one you have. Both need a fax number that can receive.

The online EIN tool not working? Fax your SS-4 with your own fax number in the form. A reply takes about 16 days, and at three weeks with none, send it again before you call.

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 we email you when an IRS fax lands in your inbox.

Lost your CP 575? Call the IRS, ask for Letter 147C by fax, and the agent faxes it to the number you give. By mail it takes 10 to 14 business days.

The CP 575 is issued once and never reissued. If you lost it, the IRS can fax you a Letter 147C replacement while you are on the phone. 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. The IRS targets 4 business days; across filings faxed through FaxTerra, a reply takes about 16 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, with no fax machine or phone line. Your first 10 pages each month are free. Every delivered fax comes with a delivery confirmation for your records.

A UK office that asks for a fax does not care where you are, only that the pages arrive. Send them to any +44 fax number from your phone or computer, with no machine and no phone line. Your first 5 pages to the United Kingdom each month are free.

A German office that asks for a fax does not care where you are, only that the pages arrive. Send them to any +49 fax number from your phone or computer, with no machine and no phone line. Your first 5 pages to Germany each month are free.

A Australian office that asks for a fax does not care where you are, only that the pages arrive. Send them to any +61 fax number from your phone or computer, with no machine and no phone line. Your first 5 pages to Australia each month are free.

A Japanese office that asks for a fax does not care where you are, only that the pages arrive. Send them to any +81 fax number from your phone or computer, with no machine and no phone line. Your first 5 pages to Japan each month are free.

A Austrian office that asks for a fax does not care where you are, only that the pages arrive. Send them to any +43 fax number from your phone or computer, with no machine and no phone line. Your first 5 pages to Austria each month are free.

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.

Unemployment insurance runs state by state, not through one federal office. Here’s how to find your state agency’s fax number, send your paperwork for free, and get the reply back.

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. Four regions publish one, the Mid-Atlantic publishes one per medical center, and three publish none. 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 presents Release of Information as one service, but its own authorization form lists a Health Information Management Services office for each campus, each with its own fax. The numbers below are read from that form and from the Mayo Clinic records page, and the right line is the office for the campus that treated you.

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 line is set by your plan and by what you are filing: an appeal, a grievance, or a request for a coverage decision. The lines below are read from UHC's own Community Plan page and its California grievance form; every other plan carries its number in the Evidence of Coverage.

Anthem runs a separate plan in each state it serves, so the right fax line is set by your state and your plan type. The lines below are read from Anthem's own state and Medicare pages; commercial members and the Medicaid plans that take filings by portal or mail only find their route on the denial letter.

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 keeps a Health Information Management office for each campus and lists every fax on one page, one table per state. The right line is set by which facility holds your chart, and a hospital stay, a medical group visit and an imaging appointment can each sit with a different office. All of them are below, read from AdventHealth's own medical records page.

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, handled by its records partner, plus a Health Information Management line at each of its hospitals. Either works. The system line is the simple choice; the hospital line puts the request in front of the department that holds your chart. Every number below is read from Baylor Scott & White's own records page.

Penn Medicine keeps records at the hospital that treated you, and its patient records page tells you to mail or fax the signed authorization to that hospital. All seven hospital lines are below, read from that page, with the hospital each one serves.

There is more than one Baptist Health, and they are separate organizations that happen to share a name. Each publishes its own records fax lines on its own site, some one per system and some one per hospital. Every line below is read from those pages, and the right one is set by which system, and which hospital, holds your chart.

Mount Sinai Health System sends every record request to the hospital that holds the chart. Its system page lists a phone number and address per site, and three sites publish a fax on their own page or instruction sheet. Those three are below, read from Mount Sinai's own pages, with the site each one serves.

The national Trinity Health system has no central records office. Each regional ministry runs its own Health Information Management office and publishes its own fax on its own site, so the right line is set by which hospital holds your chart. Every fax those ministries publish is below, listed by state and hospital, along with the unrelated Trinity Health in Minot, North Dakota.

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, the Chesterfield, Missouri system at mercy.net, publishes a Health Information Management fax number for each of its hospitals on one records page, and the right line is set by which hospital holds your chart. Every line Mercy prints is below, listed by state and hospital. Several unrelated health systems also use the name, so check the domain first.

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 publish a fax number. The right line is set by which hospital holds your chart. Every number below is read from SSM Health's own Get My Medical Records page, grouped by state, with the cover-sheet wording each office asks for.

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, and Corewell lists every one on its Request a Copy page. The right line is set by which hospital holds your chart. All of them are below, grouped by region, with the pickup site for the hospitals that have no records staff on site.

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, and it publishes a Health Information Management fax for each hospital on nine regional medical records pages, now hosted by CommonSpirit Health. Every line below is read from those pages, and the right one is set by which hospital holds your chart.

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 publishes no central directory. The lines below are read from the authorization forms Ascension serves for three of its markets, with the facility each one serves. Anywhere else, the number comes from the facility itself.

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 centralizes records requests at one Release of Information office for the whole network, with a second line for Cancer Care records. Both numbers below are read from HonorHealth's own records page and the January 2025 form it links. Which line is yours is set by the kind of care, and patients from four East Valley campuses mail the form instead.

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. Hopkins lists the fax for every facility on one page, and all nine are below with the facility each one serves.

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 does not publish a fax number for records requests, at its physician offices or at its hospitals. Here is where your request actually goes, and what you can still use a fax for.

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 rest of the Mass General Brigham hospitals share one Release of Information fax line in Somerville, printed on the records page and on every hospital's release form. Copies of radiology images are the split: each hospital's form carries its own imaging fax, and the right one is set by which hospital performed the study. All of them are below.

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 no longer takes beneficiary claims by fax. Its beneficiary-claim page now lists a phone line and an online form only. Participant forms are different, and still carry their own fax number.

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.

No scanner? No problem. Take a photo of your signed document and fax it instantly from your phone.

No fax machine, no phone line, no app to install. Send a fax online in under 2 minutes using just your web browser.

A fax app or your phone's browser sends the document over the internet to a fax service, which delivers it to the recipient's fax number. FaxTerra gives every account 10 free pages each month to any supported country, then credit packs from $1.99 for 10 pages and your own fax number from $4.99 a month.

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.