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New Member
posted Jun 5, 2019 11:52:19 PM

When I printed my returns it came with 1040 ES payment vouchers. We are not self employed so why did this come up?

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New Member
Jun 5, 2019 11:52:21 PM

The Form 1040-ES vouchers do not only relate to self-employment income.  Whenever there is a tax due on a return, TurboTax will print an estimated tax voucher as a courtesy to mail a payment to the applicable Internal Revenue Service (IRS) campus. 

If you are entitled to a refund, you should ignore the voucher.  Otherwise, you can utilize the IRS Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) to schedule your estimated tax payments rather than submit a paper voucher.  Please note an enrollment process is required to access the system.

New Member
Mar 20, 2021 1:25:00 PM

that should have been provided in the chat while I was on-line.  to have the person that I'm looking to for answers, respond with "I don't know".... "could be this..."  is VERY frustrating.  

Level 10
Mar 20, 2021 2:02:58 PM

The rule is that you must pay your taxes as you go.

If at filing time, you have not paid enough income taxes through withholding or quarterly estimated payments, you may have to pay a penalty for underpayment.

To determine whether you need to make quarterly estimates, answer these questions:

  1. Do you expect to owe less than $1,000 in taxes for the tax year after subtracting your federal income tax withholding from the total amount of tax you expect to owe this year? If so, you're safe—you don't need to make estimated tax payments.
     
  2. Do you expect your federal income tax withholding (plus any estimated taxes paid on time) to amount to at least 90 percent of the total tax that you will owe for this tax year? If so, then you're in the clear, and you don't need to make estimated tax payments.
     
  3. Do you expect that your income tax withholding will be at least 100 percent of the total tax on your previous year's return? Or, if your adjusted gross income (Form 1040, line 8b) on your tax return was over $150,000 ($75,000 if you're married and file separately), do you expect that your income tax withholding will be at least 110 percent of the total tax you owed for the previous year? If so, then you're not required to make estimated tax payments.

If you answered "no" to all of these questions, you must make estimated tax payments using Form 1040-ES. To avoid a penalty, your total tax payments (estimated taxes plus withholding) during the year must satisfy one of the requirements we just covered.
 

Form 1040-ES