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- From: hcy@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (hon-chi.yu)
- Subject: It's that time of the year: a question on unexpected capital gain
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:25:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.192555.16571@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
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- I have a tax question regarding estimated tax payment penalty,
- and I appreciate anybody's answers to verify my understandings:
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- If somebody has a significant capital gain (say, from stocks transaction,
- and significant compared to the salary) incurred during a year, and that
- person only made an estimated tax payment before January 15 of the following
- year (the 4th quarterly payment due date), which, when added to the regular
- withholding from salary, should satisfy the >90% of final tax due requirement,
- will that person still be liable to under-estimated tax penalty when April 15
- comes? What if the capital gain incurred during the first half of the year?
- To be fair, I would think that a tax payer needs not pay the tax on the
- unexpected capital gain on stock until the end of the year when s/he knows for
- sure the final gain/loss, but my reading of the tax document suggest otherwise,
- am I correct? If there is a penalty, how much will that be?
- And, if that person anticipates similar significant capital gain in the
- following year, what will be the best withholding strategy?
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- Thank you very much in advance.
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