About the 2290 Advisor

What we do

• Compare IRS-approved e-file providers for Form 2290 and Form 8849 and show the reason for the top pick.
• Calculate the IRS heavy highway vehicle use tax from the IRS tables, and the credit you can claim when a truck is sold, destroyed or stolen.
• Explain deadlines, documents and common mistakes in plain English and Spanish.

What we never do

• We do not file your return. You file with the provider you choose.
• We never ask for or store your EIN or VIN. Text that looks like one is masked before anything else happens.
• We do not accept money from providers to rank them higher. The ranking is plain code: fee first, then the facts you ask for.
• We never show a price we have not read from the provider’s own public page, and every price carries the date it was checked.

How we check things

The list of approved providers comes from the IRS itself and is re-read every hour. Provider prices are read from their public pages and re-checked on a schedule; if a price changes we flag it instead of guessing. Tax amounts are copied from the IRS Form 2290 and its instructions and cross-checked against each other before they go live. A written summary, when shown, is produced by one AI and fact-checked by a second AI and by our own rules, and dropped if it does not match the facts.

How it stays free

It runs on free-tier services, so the cost is small, but it is not zero: the domain, the time to verify prices every month, and refreshing the IRS tables each July. Voluntary contributions are what keep it free for the next trucker.

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