1) Do you only have to pay estimated taxes if you transfer the money out of the brokerage account and into your bank account? All sales are reported on the return no matter what you did with the money from them.
2) My overall profit for the year is about $3,000. My AGI for tax year 2020 was about $38,500. Should I have reported estimated taxes? You only pay taxes on the profits no matter what you did with them and you pay a penalty for not making having enough paid in advance but only if you will owe more than $1000 on the tax return.
3) Does TurboTax have software to help with this? If so, does it allow you to file quarterly taxes without charging you a fee each quarter? Yes, the TT program can help you fill in estimated payment forms but you cannot make the payments thru the TT program.
You should consider paying quarterly estimated taxes if you don't have enough withholding taken out to cover the tax on all your income. You might be able to increase your W2 withholding, at your regular job, to account for the extra income.
To avoid an underpayment penalty, you should make estimated tax payments for the current tax year if both of the following apply:
- 1. You expect to owe at least $1,000 in tax for the current tax year, after subtracting your withholding and credits.
- 2. You expect your withholding and credits to be less than the smaller of: 90% of the tax to be shown on your current year’s tax return, or 100% of the tax shown on your prior year’s tax return. (Your prior year tax return must cover all 12 months.)
TurboTax (TT) can prepare the payment vouchers. In your 2016 software, enter at:
Federal Taxes or Personal
Other Tax Situations
Other Tax Forms
Form W-4 and Estimated Taxes - Click the Start or Update button
If your goal is just to avoid the underpayment penalty, then paying 100% of the prior year tax liability is the “safe haven”
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