{"id":11716,"date":"2017-11-07T13:54:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2017-11-05T14:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T20:01:27","slug":"probably-making-estimated-tax-payments-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2017\/11\/probably-making-estimated-tax-payments-irs.html","title":{"rendered":"You probably should be making estimated tax payments to the IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4432\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IRS.jpg\" alt=\"IRS logo\" width=\"320\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IRS.jpg 320w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IRS-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re self-employed (running a business), you need to know that the IRS expects you to make estimated payments each quarter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taxes are pay-as-you-go,&#8221; the official IRS page said. &#8220;This means that you need to pay most of your tax during the year, as you receive income, rather than paying at the end of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Payments are due four times a year:<\/p>\n<p>Estimated tax payments are due as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 15 for income from January 1 to March 31<\/li>\n<li>June 15 for income from April 1 to May 31<\/li>\n<li>September 15 for income from June 1 to August 31<\/li>\n<li>January 15 of the following year for income from September 1 to December 31<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can make payments online or using the IRS app, among other ways.<\/p>\n<p>Get the full details from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/payments\/pay-as-you-go-so-you-wont-owe-a-guide-to-withholding-estimated-taxes-and-ways-to-avoid-the-estimated-tax-penalty\">IRS at\u00a0Pay As You Go, So You Won\u2019t Owe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re self-employed (running a business), you need to know that the IRS expects you to make estimated payments each quarter. &#8220;Taxes are pay-as-you-go,&#8221; the official IRS page said. &#8220;This means that you need to pay most of your tax during the year, as you receive income, rather than paying at the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IRS.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11748,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions\/11748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}