On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:18:02PM -0700, Sasha Pachev wrote: > Hello, everybody, > > This is going to be less OT than some of the threads have been. If you are > a Linux hacker, you might have a consulting business. And if so, figuring > out how you pay your taxes is a part of it. So this is somewhat on topic :-) > > As some of you may have noticed or heard, I am now a full-time independent > consultant for the first time. Things are going well so far, except I need > to figure out how I am paying taxes to make sure IRS does not hit me with a > fine, and also to make sure I do not pay more than I have to. > > Questions: > > Does anybody know of a calculator that will tell me based on my expected > annual income, family size and estimated deductions how much tax I owe per > quarter for both state and federal taxes? I have found one on Intuit site > that kind of does it, but it does not do deductions/child tax credit/etc, > nor does it do state taxes. (And to keep this on topic, it has to be > Linux-compatible).
Taxes... Gnrrrr..... Last year I put the Federal 1040 ES form onto an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet. I have not yet updated it for 2005. If you'd like a copy, I'd be glad to do the update & GPL it. Sorry, being smart enough to live in a state with no state income tax, I don't have a Utah equivalent. > > If I did fine without a CPA when most of my income came from a W-2 type > job, do I need one now? How much time do you want to spend on taxes? -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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