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Version: 1.7.3

Overview

Form 3921 is an IRS information return filed annually to report the exercise of an Incentive Stock Option (ISO) by corporations. It is generally filed for each employee to whom the corporation transferred shares of stock as a result of exercising an incentive stock option described in Section 422(b).

Services you can avail of through TaxBandits API:​

  • Federal Filing - E-file 3921 with the IRS.
  • Postal Mailing - Distribute the recipient copy of Form 3921 via Postal Mail.
  • Online Access - Make the digital copies of Form 3921 available online for the corresponding recipients.

Form 3921 endpoints:​

You can use the following endpoints to complete the 3921 filing.

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In order to use the following endpoints, you must call the Auth method to get the access token. This access token must be supplied in the request header as the ‘Bearer‘ token. Refer to OAuth 2.0 Authentication for more information on JWT authentication.

  • Create - To create Form 3921 for the recipients under the corresponding payer. While creating the form, you can opt for state filing, postal mail, and online access if required.
  • Update - To make changes to an existing Form 3921.
  • Transmit - To transmit the 3921 to the IRS.
  • Status - To check the status of the 3921 after transmission. (As an alternative, you can configure Webhooks for E-file Status Change)

If you need to retrieve Form PDFs, you can use one of the endpoints mentioned here.

Webhook Configuration for Form 3921 Status Updates:​

TaxBandits API enables you to receive automated status updates regarding your Form 3921 forms via webhook. You can configure webhooks for the following event types to receive Form 3921 status updates.

  • E-file Status Change - You will be notified when the IRS accepts or rejects your Form 3921. Learn More
  • Postal Sent - You will be notified when the Form 3921 Correction forms are mailed to the recipients.
  • Online Access Status Change - You will be notified when the Form 3921 forms are shared with recipients via online access, when recipients provide consent, and when they access the forms. Learn More

Other 3921 Endpoints:​

You can use any of the following endpoints based on your needs.

  • ValidateForm - To validate the field-level specifications of form 3921 before creating the form. (Optional)
  • Validate - To audit the created Form 3921 data before transmission to the IRS.
  • List - To list all Form 3921 for a submission or Payer.
  • Get - To retrieve the recipient data, business data and form data from the 3921 created.
  • GetbyRecordIds - To retrieve the recipient data, business data, and form data using the recordids (without submissionid).
  • Delete - To delete the 3921 return you prepared in TaxBandits.
  • GenerateFromTxns - Use this method if you want to generate 3921 for the given business and recipient IDs based on the transactions you recorded using Form1099Transactions.
  • Approve - To approve the transactions that are created using TaxBandits

3921 PDF Retrieval​

You can obtain the PDF version of your 3921 forms using one of the following endpoints:

  • RequestDraftPdfUrl - To return the Draft PDF for review purposes. These forms are not transmitted and will have a watermark "For Review only" on it.
  • RequestPdfURLs - To retrieve PDFs for single or multiple recipients.
  • GetPDF - To get the link for Form 3921 PDF. To use this, you must have configured Webhook for it so that the endpoint will return the PDFs via Webhook.

Note: To retrieve the final version of 3921 Form PDFs, you can use either RequestPdfURL or GetPDF and not both.

To learn how to retrieve a 1099 PDF, click here