If you're having enough withheld from a W two job, you don't have to pay or estimated quarterly taxes at all. In general, the IRS used the federal income tax system as a pay as you go system. If you get a big bowl of income in the fourth quarter because you're getting paid in December, you just have to make a fourth quarter a little bit bigger estimated quarterly tax payment to make up for that.

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