Oponal Short Method
Line 7
Enter the total amount of 2019 estimated tax payments you made in 2019 and 2020. Do not include any other amounts on line 7.
Line 12
Subtract line 11 from line 10. This is the amount of your underpayment of estimated tax penalty. Enter this amount on line 31 of your 2019
Form M1. If you owe an amount on line 30 of Form M1, add the penalty on line 12 of this schedule to the amount owed and replace line 30
of Form M1 with the total. If you have a refund on line 28 of Form M1, subtract the penalty on line 12 of this schedule from your refund and
replace line 28 of Form M1 with the result.
Regular Method
Complete column A, lines 13–16. Then, depending on whether you have an underpayment or an overpayment, either continue with line 17 of
column A (underpayment) or line 13 of column B (overpayment).
Line 13
Enter 25 percent (.25) of line 6 in each of the four columns on line 13, unless one of the following conditions applies to you:
1 Your taxable income was higher at some times during the year and lower at others.
You may benet by guring your installments using the annualized income installment method. Complete the worksheet on the back of
Schedule M15.
The annualized income installment worksheet automatically selects the smaller of the annualized income installment or the regular install-
ment (increased by the amount saved by using the annualized income installment method in guring earlier installments).
If you use this method for one payment due date, you must use it for all payment due dates. Follow the worksheet instructions on the back of
Schedule M15.
2 You are a farmer or commercial sherman and you did not pay your entire income tax by March 1, 2020, or you did not pay two-thirds of
your income tax when you paid your estimated tax by January 15, 2020.
Enter the full amount of line 6 under column D of line 13 and omit columns A, B and C of line 13.
Line 14
For each payment period, enter the total of the following amounts:
• Estimated payments you paid for each payment period. If you applied a 2018 refund to your estimated tax, it is considered an estimated pay-
ment for your rst payment period.
• Minnesota income tax withheld during 2019. You are considered to have paid Minnesota withholding evenly during the year unless you show
otherwise. If you were employed all year, divide the amount from line 24 of Form M1 by four. Include the result in each column.
• your 2018 income tax refund, if you elected on your 2018 Minnesota return to apply all or a portion of your refund to your 2019 estimated
tax; and
• Any refundable credits you are eligible for and claim. You are considered to have received refundable credits evenly during the year unless
you show otherwise. Divide the amount from line 26 of Form M1 by four, and include the result in each column.
You are considered to have paid any Minnesota income tax withheld or received any refundable credits (Child and Dependent Care, Working
Family, K–12 Education, Parents of Stillborn Children, Credit for Taxes Paid to Wisconsin, or Historic Structure Rehabilitation) evenly during
the year unless you show otherwise. If you worked all year, divide the total amount of withholding and credits by 4, and enter the result in each
column. Your 2018 refund that you applied as an estimated payment, if any, is considered a credit to your rst payment period.
If you led your 2019 Minnesota return and paid the tax you owed on or before January 31, 2020, you may consider the tax paid as of January
15, 2020.
Lines 15 and 16
Compare line 13 of each column to line 14 of the same column.
If line 14 is more than line 13, you have an overpayment for the payment period. Subtract line 13 from line 14 and enter the result on line 15.
Add line 15 to the credit on line 14 of the next column. If you have an overpayment in any quarter following an underpayment, you must rst
apply it to previous underpayments.
If line 14 is less than line 13, you have an underpayment for that payment period. Subtract line 14 from line 13 and enter the result on line 16.
Continue with line 17.
Line 17
If you have an underpayment in all four quarters, enter the date you led your return or April 15, 2020 (whichever is earlier) in each column.
Otherwise, enter the date you paid your underpayment on line 16 in full.
Example: You made your rst quarter estimated tax payment on April 20, but you show an underpayment on line 16. On June 14, you paid your
second quarter payment in full and included the underpayment from the rst quarter. On line 17, you would enter June 14 in the rst and second
quarter columns.
Line 22
Add the amounts on line 21, columns A–D and enter the result on line 22. This is the amount of your underpayment of estimated tax penalty.
Enter this amount on line 31 of your 2019 Form M1. If you owe an amount on line 30 of Form M1, add the penalty on line 22 of this schedule
to the amount owed and replace line 30 of Form M1 with the total. If you have a refund on line 28 of Form M1, subtract the penalty on line 22
of this schedule from your refund and replace line 28 of Form M1 with the result.