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- From: lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib)
- Subject: Re: Capital Gains Tax Question
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:06:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.130647.3648@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.205050.18647@cbnews.cb.att.com> ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet) writes:
- >
- >See the instructions for Form 1040-ES -- you shouldn't get behind
- >in your 1040-ES payments. If in January you know you will owe an
- >additional $1000 in taxes, then file $250 each quarter starting
- >April 15. If you do not incur this income until July 1st, then
- >follow the instructions -- you will end up paying $500 each in Sept
- >and January.
-
- This is all wrong. You have to level your PREPAYMENTS each quarter,
- withholding and estimated taxes combined. Thus you must prepay at least
- 25% of the yearly total that must be prepaid by April 15, 50% by
- June 15, 75% by Sept. 15, 100% by Jan. 15.
-
- For example at the company where I work we
- get a lot of extra money, and thus a lot of extra withholding, in
- the first quarter, getting four paychecks (Jan. 1,31, Feb. 28, Mar 31)
- plus our versions of profit sharing and bonuses around the middle
- of March. So if in January we know we're getting an extra $1000 from stocks
- we don't have to do anything 'til probably September on estimated taxes
- because we've paid so much withholding up front.
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