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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: Capital Gains Tax Question
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:21:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.162126.27508@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan27.130647.3648@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan27.130647.3648@cbnews.cb.att.com> lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib) writes:
- >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.
-
-
- See the original article.
-
- He received an unexpected lump gain in the first quarter.
-
- If withholding was exactly correct before the unexpected gain, then
- leveling estimated payments from that quarter onwards is correct.
-
- >
- >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.
-
- Yes, you got a lot of extra withholding. The poster asked about
- unexpected capital gains.
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
-