"JGE" wrote:

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Individuals can make all Federal income tax payments, including ES payments,
through www.eftps.com for free.

MD has an excellent website. You can both make and retrieve information
about ES payments for free.

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Phil Marti
Clarksburg, MD

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There's a middle ground which I think mostly addresses the OP's
concern,
but avoids the security nightmare. - which North Carolina does. You
can
pay estimated-tax, or make request-for-extension and other stuff, via
their
website and without ANY fees (assuming you draw the money from a
bank account instead of a credit card). It then gives you a receipt
to
print, so you have a paper trail.

I don't know how other state's tax websites compare to NC's, but I am
pretty impressed with ours, and it's certainly vastly superior to the
fed's,
which AFAIK does not allow any of the payments to be made without
handling fees.

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On Mar 2, 11:09 pm, skywaffle1_at_yahoo_dot_...[at]foo.com (JohnC) wrote:

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The IRS has a site EFTPS

https://www.eftps.com/eftps/

that lets you pay electronically from your bank account as well as
view your payments.

If you don't have EFTPS and sign up for it now, I don't know whether
the payments you already made (by mailing in checks) will
automatically show up in the payments section.

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JohnC wrote:
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You can request a free account transcript at 800–829–1040 which should
show estimated payments credited to your account, IIRC.

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Be careful what you ask for, that could be a security/identity theft
nightmare. Just think of how much data that access to your "account"
would entail -- way more than just a list of deposits.

Certain tax pros can access taxpayer account information online with
appropriate power of attorney or authorization to disclose.

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Many people know what estimated payments they made by relying on the
statements from the "private financial institutions" that you, as a
customer, pay for. How hard can it be to keep track of up to four
checks that you wrote out and mailed in? Or, you could sign up for
electronic payments. Or, you could ask for withholding and get a free
statement in time to file your return.

If you over or under claimed you estimated payments, you will hear about
it in due course.

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What would you be willing to pay for such a service? Taxpayers who
don't make estimated payments (the vast majority, I'm sure) shouldn't
have to subsidize it for you, should they?

-Mark Bole

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I make ES tax payments to the IRS.

As a lowly taxpayer, I know it's too much for me to ask to expect the
government to provide me with a statement of the payments I have made like
every single private financial institution I've ever dealt with does.

I'm guessing it's also too much to ask to ask them to enter the 20th
century (let alone the 21st) and allow me to access my account online.

But that's my question. Is there some way I can access my account online
to view my payments, or do I just have to blindly reconcile my account and
hope it's right?

Let me see if I can guess the answer! Please make me wrong!



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