Using the turbo tax estimate site for 2018. When asked about tax payments for 2018,does that mean the amount I paid to the IRS? Or does it mean something else?

[AnthonyC · Accepted solution]

Depending on the wording on the question you are seeing it could be two different things -

If it says federal withholding payments - those are the withholdings from your W2 / paychecks

If it says tax payments - it's referring to direct payments made to the IRS such as estimated tax payments during 2018 (i.e. if you are self-employed you may have made four quarterly estimated payments to the IRS) or if you had a refund last year and applied it to this year.  What that isn't referring to is if you owed taxes from last years return and paid the IRS in April - that doesn't get entered.