How is your federal tax 28K if you taxable income is only 89k? your tax should be 9,982 +(89,000-72,500)*25% = 14,108. You must have gotten a nice refund if the 28K you listed was the tax withhled during the year not the tax actually due. |
Nope, we owed actually. My H is self employed, so maybe that's why? I know he pays some sort of "self employment tax". I don't know much about taxes, we have an accountant that does them, but I wasn't thinking we would owe so much, since we made so much less last year. We were pretty surprised. |
Me again, I just took a look at our "tax work sheet". The exact numbers are Taxable income: 88,962 Tax: 14,661 Self Employment Tax: 13,222 Total Tax: 27,883 |
| People always underestimate how much other people pay in taxes (except for those gazillionaires who earn no taxable income and Exxon or GE--who really do (legally) underpay). |
PP here, I always do |
You need to increase withholding, you can specify a dollar amount. The IRS has a calculator that helps you figure out how much but you might want to hire an accountant at your income level. Don't you get penalties when you owe that much at tax time? |
I would guess that a lot of this comes from partnership income or some sort of non W2 earnings. You're required to pay taxes on that as it's incurred b/c the employer is not paying it from payroll. I send quarterly checks into fed and state ... and it sucks! |
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HHI: 300k
Fed taxes: 60k DC taxes: 20k Very happy to this as long as I see value and good management...which i increasingly doubt. |
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AGI $186k
Fed tax $26k VA tax $8k |
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AGI: $360k (or so)
federal tax: $90k (about $10k was household employee tax.) don't remember (MD) tax but it was commensurate, minus the household tax. |