The dreaded tax day is just around the corner. Got mine done on Thursday and was not looking forward to it at all. Last year we had to pay around 4,000 dollars. BUT THANK YOU TRUMP. The changes in the standard deduction and new tax tables lowered that amount to around 1.000 !!
YES the income was within couple thousand. so apples to apples
YES we chose to pay because I want to use MY MONEY during the year and not an interest free account for uncle sam to hold onto. IN fact we put 4,000 in a cd last April at 4.15% in anticipation of paying.

Off to the lake . Everyone have a great day
Haters go ahead and tear this apart I'll check back around 5 pm.

I came out the same, 6000 last year to 1700 this year. cost me 20 dollars for not pying quartly. Go Trump.

Did mine Thursday. With the standard deduction increase of over 30k increase in child tax credit, 25k in tax credit in overtime, and farm deductions my planing worked out well. Stayed in the tax bracket I was shooting for even with rolling 20k over from IRA to Roth. Could have rolled another 6k and stayed in the bracket but not bad for ball park figuring and not wanting to get to close. Still geting a nice refund. Over all pretty satisfied and also benefiting from the new Tax changes. The roll over will have the biggest effect long term for long term tax planning. Hopefully I can get everything into roth ira and roth 401 before I retire.

OP the game is to pay enough through the year that you either get very little back or have to pay a small amount.

Don't need the feds making money on interest on my money either

We file quarterly so we don't pay the penalty and the interest they add on. There are years based on the market returns when we are under a bit and get a fine a late payment fine as well. Yes the 12000 off the top did save us a few thousand this year.

Bryce