Fillable Form Ew1 - E-Waste Annual Registration Fee

Form EW1 Instructions

General Instructions

• Schedules B1 and B2. To report the

Line 10

total weight of covered electronic devices

Late payment. If you don’t pay the fee by the

Manufacturers who sell their brands of

(CED) recycled, including the amount

due date, the following penalties apply:

video display devices (VDDs) to Minnesota

collected from counties where you seek

households must pay an annual registration

• 5 percent of the fee due if the payment is

additional credits, and the number of

fee to the Department of Revenue. Unregis-

1 – 30 days late

CED pounds bought or sold.

tered manufacturers cannot sell their brands

• 10 percent if it’s 31 – 60 days late

of VDDs in Minnesota directly or through

• Schedule C. To report prior and current

• 15 percent if it’s more than 60 days late

retail outlets.

year carryover amounts and any balance.

Late filing. If you don’t file Form EW1 on

The total registration fee is equal to a base fee

Line Instructions

time, we’ll assess an additional 5 percent of

of $2,500 for those manufacturers who sold

Line 3

the unpaid fee.

100 or more VDDs to Minnesota households

State law requires that you recycle the great-

during the previous period, plus a variable

The maximum penalty for filing late and

er of 80 percent of the total weight of your

recycling fee based on collection shortfalls

paying late is 20 percent.

VDD sales (for period July 1, 2015, through

for the reporting period.

June 30, 2016) or your minimum recycling

Determine any penalties you may owe and

obligation given to you by Minnesota Pollu-

enter the amount on line 10.

VDDs

tion Control on July 30, 2015.

The definition of VDDs is changing effec-

Line 11

Line 3a. Multiply line 2 by 80% (.80).

tive July 1, 2016. For calculation of your

If you don’t pay the fees by the due date,

current registration fee base the number of

you must pay interest on the unpaid fee plus

Line 3b. If you received a minimum recy-

sales on the new definition of VDDs which

penalty from the due date until the total is

cling obligation on July 30, 2015, enter it

only includes TVs and computer monitors

paid. The interest rate for calendar year 2015

here. Otherwise enter 0.

of any size. For reporting sales of VDDs on

is 3 percent.

Line 3. Enter the greater of line 3a or 3b.

schedule A and line 2 of EW1 use the old

To figure how much interest you owe, use

This is the amount of pounds you are re-

definition of VDDs which includes screens

the following formula with the appropriate

quired to recycle.

over nine inches diagonally of:

interest rate:

Lines 4a, 4b and 4c

• televisions (TV-DVD/VCR combinations

Interest =

Manufacturers must report the total weight

and monitors for home security/CCTV

(fee + penalty) × # of days late × interest rate ÷ 365

of CEDs collected from Minnesota house-

systems)

holds and recycled or arranged to have

Electronic Payments

• computer monitors (monitors, all-in-

collected and recycled during the period.

one computers, laptop computers, tablet

If your annual e-waste registration fee due

Manufacturers can only purchase pounds

computers, eBook readers, digital picture

for the last 12-month period ending June 30

from registered recyclers, collectors and

frames, and portable DVD players)

is $10,000 or more, you’re required to pay

manufacturers.

your tax electronically. You must also pay

Due Date

Note: CEDs must come from Minnesota

electronically if you’re required to pay any

You must file Form EW1 and pay the regis-

households and may include computers, pe-

Minnesota business tax electronically.

tration fee by Aug. 15, 2016.

ripherals, fax machines, DVD players, video

Once you’re required to make electronic

cassette recorders (VCR), and VDDs.

Minnesota Tax ID Number

payments, you must pay electronically in all

Line 4a. Complete Schedule B1 to report

future years.

Your Minnesota tax ID number is the seven-

CED pounds from Anoka, Carver, Chisago,

digit number you’re assigned when you reg-

If you’re required to make electronic pay-

Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Scott,

ister with the department. Generally, it’s the

ments and pay by check, we’ll assess a

Sherburne, Washington, and Wright coun-

same as your sales and use tax or Minnesota

payment method penalty of 5 percent on the

ties (the 11-county metropolitan area).

withholding tax number.

payment amount.

Line 4b. As an incentive to increase collec-

If you don’t have a Minnesota tax ID

To pay your registration fee electronically:

tion in traditionally underserved parts of

number, you must apply for one. Go to our

Minnesota, there is an additional credit for

• Go to and log

website at and

CEDs collected from households outside of

in, or

click on “Register for a Minnesota tax ID

the 11-county metropolitan area (greater

number” from the e-Services menu, or call

• Call 1-800-570-3329 to pay by phone

Minnesota). Complete Schedule B2 to re-

651-282-5225 or 1-800-657-3605.

You’ll need your Minnesota tax ID number,

port CED pounds from greater Minnesota.

user name, password, and banking informa-

[M.S. 115A.1314, subd. 1(d)].

Required Schedules

tion. You must use an account not associated

Line 4c. Enter the allowable carryover

Complete the following schedules and in-

with any foreign bank.

credits (up to 25 percent of the weight of the

clude them with your Form EW1:

If you use other electronic payment meth-

VDD sales that you’re required to recycle

• Schedule A. To report the total weight

ods, instructions are available on our website

in the current year) from line 4 of your

of all VDDs sold to Minnesota house-

or call our Business Registration Office at

Schedule C.

holds for the period. [Minnesota Statute

651-282-5225 or 1-800-657-3605.

Line 5a

115A.1316, subd. 1].

If line 4 is more than line 3, you can carry

over the unused CED pounds and elect to

use them in a future program year.

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