{"id":124,"date":"2018-09-11T20:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2018-12-03T21:50:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:50:24","slug":"should-you-be-making-estimated-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/11\/should-you-be-making-estimated-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you be making estimated payments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An estimated tax payment in 2018 could help avoid a penalty in 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taxes must be paid as you earn or receive income during the year, either through withholding, estimated tax payments or a combination of both. A Paycheck Checkup using the IRS Withholding Calculator can help you see if you need to make an additional payment to avoid an unexpected tax bill or underpayment penalty when you file your tax return next year.<\/p>\n<p>You may need to make estimated payments if you:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; have multiple jobs\u2014especially if you don\u2019t have each employer withhold taxes<br \/>\n&#8211; are self-employed or an independent contractor<br \/>\n&#8211; are a representative of a direct-sales or in-home-sales company<br \/>\n&#8211; participate in sharing economy activities where you are not working as an employee<br \/>\n&#8211; receive pension income<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/estimate-tax-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/estimate-tax-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/estimate-tax-1.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visit IRS,gov to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated tax payment in 2018 could help avoid a penalty in 2019 Taxes must be paid as you earn or receive income during the year, either through withholding, estimated tax payments or a combination of both. A Paycheck Checkup using the IRS Withholding Calculator can help you see if you need to make an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/11\/should-you-be-making-estimated-payments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should you be making estimated payments?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissthompson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}