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How To Figure Your
Estimated Tax
You will need:
•
The 2020 Estimated Tax Worksheet.
•
The Instructions for the 2020 Estimated
Tax Worksheet.
•
The 2020 Tax Rate Schedules for your
filing status.*
•
Your 2019 tax return and instructions to
use as a guide to figuring your income,
deductions, and credits (but be sure to
consider the items listed under
What's
New, earlier).
* If you are married, you generally must
use Tax Rate Schedule Y. For exceptions,
see chapter 5 of Pub. 519.
Matching estimated tax payments to
income. If you receive your income
unevenly throughout the year (for
example, because you operate your
business on a seasonal basis or you have
a large capital gain late in the year), you
may be able to lower or eliminate the
amount of your required estimated tax
payment for one or more periods by using
the annualized income installment
method. See chapter 2 of Pub. 505 for
details.
Changing your estimated tax. To
amend or correct your estimated tax, see
How To Amend Estimated Tax Payments,
later.
You can’t make joint estimated tax
payments if you or your spouse is
a nonresident alien, you are
separated under a decree of divorce or
separate maintenance, or you and your
spouse have different tax years.
Payment Due Dates
If you have wages subject to U.S. income
tax withholding, you can pay all of your
estimated tax by April 15, 2020, or in four
equal amounts by the dates shown below.
1st payment
..... Apr. 15, 2020
2nd payment .... Jun. 15, 2020
3rd payment ..... Sep. 15, 2020
4th payment ..... Jan. 15, 2021*
* You don’t have to make the payment due January 15,
2021, if you file your 2020 Form 1040-NR or
1040-NR-EZ by February 1, 2021, and pay the entire
balance due with your return.
If you don’t have wages subject to U.S.
income tax withholding, you can pay all of
your estimated tax by June 15, 2020, or
you can pay it in three installments. If you
pay the tax in three installments:
•
1
/2 is due by June 15, 2020;
•
1
/4 is due by September 15, 2020; and
•
1
/4 is due by January 15, 2021.
We don’t send notices reminding
you to make your estimated tax
payments. You must make each
payment by the due date.
If you mail your payment in the United
States and it is postmarked by the due
date, the date of the U.S. postmark is
considered the date of the payment. If
your payments are late or you didn’t pay
enough, you may be charged a penalty for
underpaying your tax. See
When a
Penalty Is Applied, later.
You can make more than four
estimated tax payments. To do so,
make a copy of one of your
unused estimated tax payment vouchers,
fill it in, and mail it with your payment. If
you make more than four payments, to
avoid a penalty, make sure the total of the
amounts you pay during a payment period
is at least as much as the amount required
to be paid by the due date for that period.
For other payment methods, see
How To
Pay Estimated Tax, later.
No income subject to estimated tax
during first payment period. If, after
March 31, 2020, you have a large change
in income, deductions, additional taxes, or
credits that requires you to start making
estimated tax payments, you should figure
the amount of your estimated tax
payments by using the annualized income
installment method, explained in chapter 2
of Pub. 505. If you use the annualized
income installment method, file Form
2210, including Schedule AI, with your
2020 tax return even if no penalty is owed.
Farmers and fishermen. If at least
two-thirds of your gross income for 2019
or 2020 is from farming or fishing, you can
do one of the following.
•
Pay all of your estimated tax by January
15, 2021.
•
File your 2020 Form 1040-NR by March
1, 2021, and pay the total tax due. In this
case, 2020 estimated tax payments aren’t
required to avoid a penalty.
Fiscal year taxpayers. You are on a
fiscal year if your 12-month tax period
ends on any day except December 31.
Due dates for fiscal year taxpayers are the
15th day of the 4th (if applicable), 6th, and
9th months of your current fiscal year and
the 1st month of the following fiscal year. If
any payment date falls on a Saturday,
Sunday, or legal holiday, use the next
business day. See Pub. 509 for a list of all
legal holidays.
Name Change
If you changed your name because of
marriage, divorce, etc., and you made
estimated tax payments using your former
name, attach a statement to the front of
your 2020 paper income tax return. On the
statement, show all of the estimated tax
payments you made for 2020 and the
name and identifying number under which
you made the payments.
If your identifying number is a social
security number (SSN), be sure to report
the change to your local Social Security
Administration office before filing your
2020 tax return. This prevents delays in
processing your return and issuing
refunds. It also safeguards your future
social security benefits. For more details,
call the Social Security Administration at
1-800-772-1213 (for TTY/TDD, call
1-800-325-0778) or go to
SSA.gov.
If your identifying number is an
IRS-issued individual taxpayer
identification number (ITIN), you don’t
have to contact the Social Security
Administration.
How To Amend Estimated
Tax Payments
To change or amend your estimated tax
payments, refigure your total estimated tax
payments due (see the 2020 Estimated
Tax Worksheet, later). Then, to figure the
payment due for each remaining payment
period, see
Amended estimated tax under
Regular Installment Method in chapter 2 of
Pub. 505. If an estimated tax payment for
a previous period is less than one-fourth of
your amended estimated tax, you may
owe a penalty when you file your return.
When a Penalty Is Applied
In some cases, you may owe a penalty
when you file your return. The penalty is
imposed on each underpayment for the
number of days it remains unpaid. A
penalty may be applied if you didn’t pay
enough estimated tax for the year or you
didn’t make the payments on time or in the
required amount. A penalty may apply
even if you have an overpayment on your
tax return.
The penalty may be waived under
certain conditions. See chapter 4 of Pub.
505 for details.
How To Pay Estimated Tax
The following are various methods by
which you can pay your estimated taxes.
When making payments of estimated tax,
be sure to take into account any 2019
overpayment that you choose to credit
against your 2020 tax. Use the Record of
Estimated Tax Payments table, later, to
keep track of the payments you made and
any overpayment credit you are applying.
Pay Online
IRS offers an electronic payment option
that is right for you. Paying online is
convenient and secure and helps make
sure we get your payments on time. To
pay your taxes online or for more
information, go to IRS.gov/Payments. You
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