Scutage takes last year's tax and AGI, works out the safe-harbor amount - 100%, or 110% over $150,000 - splits it into the April, June, September and January payments, and shows on each date whether you were covered or short.
Opens in this browser with an invented dancer already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed. Never holds a tax return, a bank login or a Social Security number.
The problem
Clubs, platforms and fans withhold nothing. The IRS wants the tax in four payments through the year and charges a penalty on any one that was short on its date - even if the rest is paid in full by April.
of last year's tax is the safe harbor when last year's AGI was over $150,000.
IRS Publication 505 →Not a reminder. Record payment refuses without the IRS confirmation number, an amount, or a date that has happened. A year cannot close before its January date, and closes with its verdict - met, or short by how much. A payment is never deleted. There is no override.
How it works
Total tax and AGI - and this year's withholding, if any.
Through Direct Pay or EFTPS, on or before its date.
Scutage shows on each date whether the year was covered or short.
What it will never do
Scutage holds the figures, dates, amounts and confirmation numbers, nothing more.
Pricing
For one taxpayer.
Every year, every payment.
Monthly. Your bank statement says Scutage Software. Your licence key is on your screen as soon as the payment confirms.
Pay by card through Square, on Square’s own checkout page — we never see or store your card number. Or pay with bitcoin through our own bitcoin server. Either way you come back here, type your business name, and your licence key is on the screen — no email, no waiting on us.
Questions
Because it is known in April. Paying 100% of it (110% over $150,000 AGI) avoids the penalty whatever this year turns out to be.
It stops the shortfall growing, but the installment was short on its date. Scutage shows it that way.
No. Form 2210 does that. Scutage shows where the year was short and by how much.
No. It is the plan, the record and the gates.
The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, on your screen as soon as the payment confirms: the checkout brings you back to our thank-you page, you type your business name and the key appears. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.
The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.
An invented dancer's June payment came five days late and September's came $2,060 short - both are on the record.