Internal Revenue Service · 2 pages · 25 fillable fields

Change of Address

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Opens the real 8822 in the editor — 2 pages, 25 fillable fields. It is read in your browser and never uploaded. Published by the Internal Revenue Service; forms are revised, so check the official page if you must be certain you have the current one.

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Form8822
Issued byInternal Revenue Service
CategoryTax & IRS
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What this form is for

Change of Address (8822). Tells the IRS you have moved, so notices and refund cheques follow you.

Who needs it

Anyone who has changed address since their last return.

When you do not need it

If you are filing a return anyway, the address on it updates your record — no separate form needed. Use this between filings. A business changing its address uses 8822-B.

How to fill it in

Open the file in the Quire editor. Existing form fields become editable straight away; on a flat scan you can drop your own text boxes, checkboxes and dates exactly where they belong. Sign it with the Sign tool — draw, type or upload your signature — then export.

Everything happens in your browser. A tax or immigration form carries enough personal information that it has no business sitting on somebody else's server, and here it never does.

What goes wrong

  1. This does not tell the Postal Service anything, and it does not tell the Social Security Administration. Those are separate notifications.

Where it goes

Follow the address or e-file route printed in the current IRS instructions for this form. Those change between tax years, so check the instructions rather than reusing last year’s envelope.

This page explains the document and helps you fill it in. It is not legal or tax advice, and it is not affiliated with any government agency.