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did you pay estimates by mail and drop them into a PO box on the due date. Then the USPS may not have processed it to the following day using that date as the postmark. then per the iRS the payment is late.  Another possibility is you estimate was timely postmarked but the clerk entering the payment in the system may not have used to PM date. In short you need the IRS calculation to see what happened.