Preparation and e-filing of the DC FP-31 personal property tax return for landlords. Delinquency rescue: $199, or $149 when purchased with a compliance subscription. For active subscribers, the annual filing itself is included in the subscription.
Anyone holding personal property in the District for business use — and renting out a DC property is a business, so licensed landlords are on the list. Registering your BBL opens a personal property tax account with the Office of Tax and Revenue, and from then on OTR expects an FP-31 return every year, filed electronically at MyTax.DC.gov by July 31.
Usually not a dollar. The first $225,000 of personal property is exempt, and the appliances and furnishings of a one-to-three-unit rental come nowhere near that. The catch is that OTR expects the return anyway — a $0 return you never filed still becomes a delinquency notice.
Don't panic — this is the most fixable scary letter DC sends. Penalties are a percentage of the tax you owe, so if your return is $0, filing it late usually clears the notice with nothing owed. The fix is to file the missing year on MyTax.DC.gov and answer the notice quoting its case number. We do the whole thing — return, notice response, confirmation in your document vault — for $199, or $149 with a compliance subscription.
Yes. The $14.99/month compliance subscription includes your FP-31 filed for you every year before the July 31 deadline, alongside deadline tracking, early warnings, and compliance proof. It exists so the delinquency notice above never gets printed with your name on it.
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