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Taxes For Dummies
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Taxes For Dummies

by Eric Tyson, Margaret Atkins Munro, David J. Silverman
January 2022
Beginner
656 pages
21h 48m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 8

Form 1040, Schedule 2: Additional Taxes

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Calculating the Alternative Minimum Tax

Bullet Dealing with the excess advance premium tax credit

Bullet Paying back any overpayment of the child tax credit

Bullet Figuring your self-employment tax

Bullet Handling household employment taxes

Bullet Understanding investment income and additional Medicare taxes

It’s a common misconception that filing your 1040 every year is solely for the purpose of determining how much income tax you owe on your income for the prior year. In fact, the 1040 covers not only your annual income tax, but also a myriad of other taxes that you may be liable for. On Schedule 2 of Form 1040, you’ll dive into those additional types of taxes, penalties, paybacks, alternative methods of calculating tax, and so on. We actually like to refer to this portion of your tax return as “so many taxes, so little time.”

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