Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service 2023 Form 1041-ES Estimated Income Tax for Estates and Trusts OMB No. 1545-0971 Section references are to the Internal Who Must Make Estimated How To Figure Estimated Revenue Code unless otherwise noted. Tax Payments Tax Future Developments Generally, a fiduciary of an estate or trust Use the 2023 Estimated Tax Worksheet For the latest information about must pay estimated tax if the estate or and 2023 Tax Rate Schedule, later, and developments related to Form 1041-ES trust is expected to owe, after the estate’s or trust’s 2022 tax return and its instructions, such as legislation subtracting its withholding and credits, and instructions as a guide for figuring enacted after they were published, go to at least $1,000 in tax for 2023 and can the 2023 estimated tax. www.irs.gov/Form1041ES. expect its withholding and credits to be If the estate or trust receives its less than the smaller of: income unevenly throughout the year, it What’s New 1. 90% of the tax shown on the 2023 may be able to lower or eliminate the Capital gains and qualified dividends. tax return (662%/3 of the tax if the estate amount of its required estimated tax The maximum tax rate for long-term or trust qualifies as a farmer or payment for one or more periods by capital gains and qualified dividends is fisherman); or using the annualized income installment 20%. For tax year 2023, the 20% rate 2. The tax shown on the 2022 tax method. See Pub. 505, Tax Withholding applies to amounts above $14,650. The return (110% of that amount if the and Estimated Tax, for details. 0% and 15% rates continue to apply to estate’s or trust’s adjusted gross income amounts below certain threshold (AGI) on that return is more than Instructions for 2023 amounts. The 0% rate applies to $150,000, and less than 2/ 3of gross Estimated Tax Worksheet amounts up to $3,000. The 15% rate income for 2022 and 2023 is from applies to amounts between the two farming or fishing). Line 4. Exemption thresholds. However, if a return wasn’t filed for Decedents’ estates. A decedent’s 2022 or that return didn’t cover a full 12 estate is allowed a $600 exemption. Purpose of Form months, item (2) above doesn’t apply. Trusts required to distribute all Use this package to figure and pay For this purpose, include household income currently. A trust whose estimated tax for an estate or trust. employment taxes when figuring the tax governing instrument requires that all Estimated tax is the amount of tax an shown on the tax return, but only if: income be distributed currently estate or trust expects to owe for the is allowed a $300 exemption, even if it year after subtracting the amount of any • The estate or trust will have federal distributed amounts other than income tax withheld and the amount of any income tax withheld from any income, or during the tax year. credits. • The estate or trust would be required Qualified disability trusts. A qualified This package is primarily for first-time to make estimated tax payments (to disability trust is allowed a $4,700 filers. After the IRS receives the first avoid a penalty) even if it didn’t include exemption. This amount is not subject to payment voucher, the estate or trust will household employment taxes when phaseout. receive a 1041-ES package with the figuring its estimated tax. A qualified disability trust is any trust: name, address, and employer Exceptions. Estimated tax payments identification number (EIN) preprinted on aren’t required from: 1. Described in 42 U.S.C. 1396p(c)(2) (B)(iv) and established solely for the the vouchers for the next tax year. Use 1. An estate of a domestic decedent or benefit of an individual under 65 years of the preprinted vouchers unless the a domestic trust that had a full 12-month age who is disabled, and Electronic Federal Tax Payment System 2022 tax year and had no tax liability for (EFTPS) is used. If you, as fiduciary, that year; 2. All of the beneficiaries of which are didn’t receive any 2023 preprinted determined by the Commissioner of vouchers, use the vouchers in this 2. A decedent’s estate for any tax year Social Security to have been disabled for package. However, don’t use the ending before the date that is 2 years some part of the tax year within the vouchers to notify the IRS of a change of after the decedent’s death; or meaning of 42 U.S.C. 1382c(a)(3). address. If the fiduciary has moved, 3. A trust that was treated as owned A trust won’t fail to meet (2) above just complete Form 8822-B, Change of by the decedent if the trust will receive because the trust’s corpus may revert to Address or Responsible Party — the residue of the decedent’s estate a person who isn't disabled after the Business. under the will (or, if no will is admitted to trust ceases to have any disabled probate, is the trust primarily responsible beneficiaries. for paying debts, taxes, and expenses of administration) for any tax year ending before the date that is 2 years after the decedent’s death. Cat. No. 63550R |
Qualified funeral trusts. No exemption Include household employment taxes Farmers and fishermen. An estate or is allowed to a qualified funeral trust. on line 12 if: trust qualifies as a farmer or fisherman if All other trusts. A trust not described • The estate or trust will have federal at least 2/ 3of gross income for 2022 or above is allowed a $100 exemption. income tax withheld from any income, or 2023 is from farming or fishing. If the estate or trust qualifies, do one of the Line 7. Tax • The estate or trust would be required following. to make estimated tax payments (to Electing Alaska Native Settlement avoid a penalty) even if it didn’t include • Pay the total estimated tax (line 16 of Trusts. Multiply line 6 by 10% (0.10) to household employment taxes when the 2023 Estimated Tax Worksheet) by figure the amount of tax to enter on line figuring its estimated tax. January 16, 2024. 7, unless the trust is expected to have • File Form 1041 for 2023 by qualified dividends or a net capital gain When To Make Estimated March 1, 2024, and pay the total tax for 2023. Use Part IV of Schedule D of due. In this case, don’t make estimated Form 1041-N, U.S. Income Tax Return Tax Payments tax payments for 2023. for Electing Alaska Native Settlement Trusts. The trust may pay all of its Trusts, as a worksheet to figure the 2023 estimated tax by April 18, 2023, or in For fiscal year estates, pay the total tax on qualified dividends or net capital four equal installments due by the estimated tax by the 15th day of the 1st gain. See the Instructions for Form following dates. month following the close of the tax year, or file Form 1041 by the 1st day of 1041-N at www.irs.gov/Form1041N for 1st installment ............... April 18, 2023 the 3rd month following the close of the more information. 2nd installment ..............June 15, 2023 tax year and pay the total tax due. Line 10. Credits 3rd installment ..............Sept. 15, 2023 How To Complete and Use For details on credits the estate or trust 4th installment ............... Jan. 16, 2024 may claim, see the instructions for lines the Payment Vouchers 2a–2d of Schedule G, Form 1041. If the trust has a short tax year, see Notice 87-32, 1987-1 C.B. 477, for the Each payment voucher has the date Line 12. Other Taxes estimated tax due dates and other when the voucher is due for calendar Enter any other taxes such as the information. year estates and trusts. Be sure to use the correct voucher. Complete and send following. The trust doesn’t have to in the voucher only if you are making a make the payment due on payment. To complete your voucher, do Investment Income Tax (NIIT) is 3.8% of • For estates and trusts, the Net TIP January 16, 2024, if it files the the following. the lesser of the estate’s or trust’s 2023 Form 1041 by undistributed net investment income or January 31, 2024, and pays the entire • Enter the estate’s or trust’s name and the excess of the estate’s or trust’s AGI balance due with the return. EIN, and the fiduciary’s name, title, and address in the spaces provided on the over the dollar amount at which the Estates. If the estate has adopted a payment voucher. highest income tax bracket for estates calendar year as its tax year, file using and trusts begins for such tax year. For the rules listed under Trusts above. • Enter in the payment box of the voucher only the amount the estate or tax years beginning after 2022, the If the estate has adopted a fiscal year, trust is sending in. When making highest income tax bracket applies to it may pay all of its estimated tax by the payments of estimated tax, be sure to amounts over $14,450. The NIIT doesn’t 15th day of the 4th month of its 2023 tax take into account any 2022 overpayment apply to trusts where all of the unexpired year or in four equal installments due on that the estate or trust chose to credit interests are devoted to charitable the 15th day of the 4th, 6th, and 9th against its 2023 tax, but don’t include purposes. For information about the months of the 2023 tax year, and the 1st the overpayment amount in this box. NIIT, see the Instructions for Form 8960. month of the following tax year. • Enclose, but don’t staple or attach, a • Tax from recapture of investment The estate doesn’t have to check or money order with the payment credit, low-income housing credit, make the payment due on the voucher. Make the check or money order qualified electric vehicle credit, the TIP 15th day of the 1st month payable to “United States Treasury.” Indian employment credit, the new following the close of the Write the estate’s or trust’s EIN and markets credit, or the credit for fiscal year if it files the 2023 Form 1041 “2023 Form 1041-ES” on the check or employer-provided child care facilities. by the last day of the 1st month following money order. Do not include any balance • Tax on accumulation distribution of the close of the fiscal year, and pays the due on the 2022 Form 1041 with the trusts. entire balance due with the return. check for 2023 estimated tax. • Tax figured under section 641(c) on If any date falls on a Saturday, Fill in the Record of Estimated Tax income attributable to S corporation Sunday, or legal holiday, the installment Payments in the 2023 Tax Rate Schedule stock held by an electing small business is due on the next business day. See and keep it for your files. trust. For details, see Electing Small Pub. 509, Tax Calendars, for a list of all Business Trusts in the 2022 Instructions legal holidays. No checks of $100 million or more accepted. The IRS can’t accept a single for Form 1041. If, after March 31, 2023, or after the check (including a cashier’s check) for Note: For 2023, the highest income tax last day of the 3rd month of the fiscal tax amounts of $100,000,000 ($100 million) rate for trusts is 37%. year, the estate or trust has a large or more. If you’re sending $100 million or enough change in income to require the more by check, you’ll need to spread the payment of estimated tax, figure the payments over two or more checks with amount of each installment by using the each check made out for an amount less annualized income installment method, than $100 million. The $100 million or as explained in Pub. 505. more amount limit does not apply to other methods of payment (such as electronic payments), so consider paying by means other than checks. -2- |
Electronic Deposits than ¼ of the amended estimated tax, Paperwork Reduction Act Notice. We the estate or trust may owe a penalty ask for the information on the payment A financial institution that has been when its return is filed. vouchers to carry out the Internal designated as an authorized federal tax Revenue laws of the United States. You depositary, and acts as a fiduciary for at When a Penalty Is Applied are required to give us the information. least 200 taxable trusts that are required We need it to ensure that you are to pay estimated tax, is required to In some cases, the estate or trust may deposit the estimated tax payments owe a penalty when it files its return. The complying with these laws and to allow electronically using EFTPS. penalty is imposed on each us to figure and collect the right amount underpayment for the number of days it of tax. A fiduciary that isn’t required to make remains unpaid. A penalty may be You aren’t required to provide the electronic deposits of estimated tax on applied if the estate or trust didn’t pay information requested on a form that is behalf of a trust or an estate may enough estimated tax or it didn’t make subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act voluntarily participate in EFTPS. To the payments on time or in the required unless the form displays a valid OMB enroll in or get more information about amount. A penalty may apply even if the control number. Books or records EFTPS, visit the EFTPS website at estate or trust has an overpayment on its relating to a form or its instructions must www.EFTPS.gov or call 800-555-4477. tax return. be retained as long as their contents To contact EFTPS using may become material in the Telecommunications Relay Services The penalty may be waived under (TRS) for people who are deaf, hard of certain conditions. See Pub. 505 for administration of any Internal Revenue hearing, or have a speech disability, dial details. law. Generally, tax returns and return information are confidential, as required 711 and then provide the TRS assistant by section 6103. the 800-555-4477 number above or Certain Payments of 800-733-4829. Also, see Pub. 966, Estimated Tax Treated as The time needed to complete the worksheets and prepare and file the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System: Paid by Beneficiary payment vouchers will vary depending A Guide to Getting Started. The fiduciary (or executor, for the final on individual circumstances. The Depositing on time. For a deposit using year of the estate) may elect to have any estimated average time is: EFTPS to be on time, the deposit must portion of its estimated tax payments Recordkeeping . . . . . . 19 min. be submitted by 8 p.m. Eastern time the treated as made by a beneficiary (and day before the due date of the deposit. not as payments made by the estate or Learning about the trust). law or the form . . . . . . 15 min. Where To File Preparing the form . . 1 hr., 43 min. Such an amount is treated as a Mail the payment voucher to: payment of the estimated tax made by Copying, assembling, Internal Revenue Service the beneficiary on the January 15th and sending the form P.O. Box 932400 following the end of the tax year. to the IRS . . . . . . . . . 1 hr. Louisville, KY 40293-2400 Time for making election. The fiduciary If you have comments concerning the Do not send the payment voucher to must make the election on the 2023 accuracy of these time estimates or the Internal Revenue Service Center Form 1041-T, Allocation of Estimated suggestions for making this package where you file Form 1041. Tax Payments to Beneficiaries. The simpler, we would be happy to hear from Only the U.S. Postal Service can election must be filed on or before the you. You can send us comments deliver to the above address. 65th day after the close of the estate’s or through www.irs.gov/FormComments. trust’s tax year. For details, see section Or, you can write to: Amending Estimated Tax 643(g). Internal Revenue Service Payments Tax Forms and Publications 1111 Constitution Ave. NW, IR-6526 To change or amend the estate’s or Washington, DC 20224 trust’s estimated tax payments, refigure the total estimated tax payments due Do not send the payment vouchers to (line 16 of the 2023 Estimated Tax this address. Instead, see Where To File , Worksheet). Then use Worksheet 2-7, earlier . Annualized Estimated Tax Worksheet, in Pub. 505 to figure the payment due for each remaining period. If an estimated tax payment for a previous period is less -3- |
2023 Tax Computation Worksheet Using Maximum Capital Gains Rates (Use this computation if the estate or trust expects a net capital gain or qualified dividends and line 6 of the 2023 Estimated Tax Worksheet is more than zero.) Caution: Don’t include any amounts allocable to the beneficiaries of the estate or trust on lines 2, 3, and 4 below. 1 Enter taxable income (from line 6 of the 2023 Estimated Tax Worksheet ) . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Enter the qualified dividends and net capital gain expected for 2023 (Reminder: Don’t include any qualified dividends or capital gain from the disposition of property held for investment that you elect to include in investment income for investment interest expense purposes.) . . . . . 2 3 Enter the 28% rate gain expected for 2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 Enter the unrecaptured section 1250 gain expected for 2023 . . . . . . 4 5 Add lines 3 and 4 and enter the smaller of that sum or the amount of net capital gain included on line 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6 Subtract line 5 from line 2. If zero or less, enter -0- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 7 Subtract line 6 from line 1. If zero or less, enter -0- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8 Enter the smaller of line 1 or $3,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 9 Enter the smaller of line 7 or line 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 10a Subtract line 2 from line 1. If zero or less, enter -0- . . . . . . . . . 10a b Enter the smaller of line 1 or $10,550 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10b c Enter the smaller of line 7 or line 10b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10c 11 Enter the larger of line 10a or line 10c . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 12 Tax on amount on line 11 from the 2023 Tax Rate Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Note: If the amounts on lines 8 and 9 are the same, skip lines 13 through 15 and go to line 16. 13 Enter the amount from line 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 14 Enter the amount from line 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 15 Subtract line 14 from line 13. If zero or less, enter -0- . . . . . . . . 15 Note: If the amounts on lines 1 and 8 are the same, skip lines 16 through 37 and go to line 38. 16 Enter the smaller of line 1 or line 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 17 Enter the amount from line 15. If line 15 is blank, enter -0- . . . . . . . 17 18 Subtract line 17 from line 16. If zero or less, enter -0- . . . . . . . . 18 19 Enter the smaller of line 1 or $14,650. . . . . . 19 20 Add lines 11 and 15 . . . . . . . . . . . 20 21 Subtract line 20 from line 19. If zero or less, enter -0- 21 22 Enter the smaller of line 18 or line 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 23 Multiply line 22 by 15% (0.15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 24 Enter the amount from line 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 25 Add lines 15 and 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 26 Subtract line 25 from line 24. If zero or less, enter -0- . . . . . . . . 26 27 Multiply line 26 by 20% (0.20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Note: If line 5 is zero or blank, skip lines 28 through 37 and go to line 38. 28 Enter the smaller of line 2 or line 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 29 Add lines 2 and 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 30 Enter the amount from line 1 . . . . . . . . 30 31 Subtract line 30 from line 29. If zero or less, enter -0- . . . . . . . . 31 32 Subtract line 31 from line 28. If zero or less, enter -0- . . . . . . . . 32 33 Multiply line 32 by 25% (0.25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Note: If line 3 is zero or blank, skip lines 34 through 37 and go to line 38. 34 Enter the amount from line 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 35 Add lines 11, 15, 22, 26, and 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 36 Subtract line 35 from line 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 37 Multiply line 36 by 28% (0.28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 38 Add lines 12, 23, 27, 33, and 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 39 Tax on the amount on line 1 from the 2023 Tax Rate Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 40 Tax. Enter the smaller of line 38 or line 39 here and on line 7 of the 2023 Estimated Tax Worksheet 40 -4- |
2023 Estimated Tax Worksheet Keep for Your Records 1 Enter adjusted total income expected in 2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Enter any expected income distribution deduction . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Enter any estate tax deduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 Enter exemption. See instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5 Add lines 2 through 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6 Taxable income of estate or trust. Subtract line 5 from line 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 7 Tax. Figure your tax on line 6 by using the 2023 Tax Rate Schedule below. (If the estate or trust expects a net capital gain or qualified dividends and line 6 is more than zero, use the 2023 Tax Computation Worksheet Using Maximum Capital Gains Rates to figure the tax.) Electing Alaska Native Settlement Trusts, see instructions . . 7 8 Alternative minimum tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 9 Add lines 7 and 8. Include any tax on lump-sum distributions from Form 4972 . . . . . . . . . . . 9 10 Credits (see instructions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 11 Subtract line 10 from line 9. If zero or less, enter -0- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 12 Other taxes (see instructions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 13 2023 estimated tax. Add lines 11 and 12. Reduce this total by any credit you expect to claim on Form 4136 13 14a Enter 90% of line 13 (662/3% for farmers and fishermen) . . . . . . . . . 14a b Enter the tax shown on the 2022 Form 1041 (110% of that amount if the estate’s or trust’s AGI on that return is more than $150,000, and less23 than / of gross income for 2022 and 2023 is from farming14b or fishing) c Required annual payment. Enter the smaller of line 14a or 14b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14c 15 Income tax withheld and estimated to be withheld during 2023 and other refundable credits . . . . . . . 15 16 Subtract line 15 from line 14c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Note: If line 13 minus line 15 is less than $1,000, the estate or trust isn't required to make estimated tax payments. 17 Installment amount. If the first required payment is due April 18, 2023, enter 1/4 of line 16 (minus any 2022 overpayment that you are applying to this installment) here and on the payment line of the voucher(s). You may round off cents to the nearest whole dollar 17 2023 Tax Rate Schedule Estates and trusts, if line 6 of the 2023 Estimated Tax Worksheet above is: Over— But not over— The tax is: Of the amount over— $0 $2,900 10% $0 2,900 10,550 $290.00 + 24% 2,900 10,550 14,450 2,126.00 + 35% 10,550 14,450 - - - - - - 3,491.00 + 37% 14,450 Record of Estimated Tax Payments Pay- (b) Check or (d) 2022 overpayment (e) Total amount paid ment (a) Date money order (c) Amount credit applied and credited (add (c) no. number and (d) ) 1 2 3 4 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tear off here 1041-ES Payment Internal Revenue Service 2023 Form Department of the Treasury Voucher 4 OMB No. 1545-0971 File only if the estate or trust is making a payment of estimated tax. Return this voucher Calendar year—Due Jan. 16, 2024 with check or money order payable to “United States Treasury.” Write the estate’s or Amount of estimated tax you are paying trust’s EIN and “2023 Form 1041-ES” on the check or money order. Do not send cash. by check or Dollars Cents Enclose, but don’t staple or attach, the payment with this voucher. money order. Employer identification number Fiscal year filers—enter year ending Name of estate or trust Name and title of fiduciary (month and year) Type or print Address of fiduciary (number, street, and room or suite no.) City, state, and ZIP code -5- |
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1041-ES Payment Internal Revenue Service 2023 Form Department of the Treasury Voucher 3 OMB No. 1545-0971 File only if the estate or trust is making a payment of estimated tax. Return this voucher Calendar year—Due Sept. 15, 2023 with check or money order payable to “United States Treasury .” Write the estate’s or Amount of estimated tax you are paying trust’s EIN and “2023 Form 1041-ES” on the check or money order. Do not send cash. by check or Dollars Cents Enclose, but don’t staple or attach, the payment with this voucher. money order. Employer identification number Fiscal year filers—enter year ending Name of estate or trust Name and title of fiduciary (month and year) Type or print Address of fiduciary (number, street, and room or suite no.) City, state, and ZIP code Tear off here 1041-ES Payment Internal Revenue Service 2023 Form Department of the Treasury Voucher 2 OMB No. 1545-0971 File only if the estate or trust is making a payment of estimated tax. Return this voucher Calendar year—Due June 15, 2023 with check or money order payable to “United States Treasury .” Write the estate’s or Amount of estimated tax you are paying trust’s EIN and “2023 Form 1041-ES” on the check or money order. Do not send cash. by check or Dollars Cents Enclose, but don’t staple or attach, the payment with this voucher. money order. Employer identification number Fiscal year filers—enter year ending Name of estate or trust Name and title of fiduciary (month and year) Type or print Address of fiduciary (number, street, and room or suite no.) City, state, and ZIP code Tear off here 1041-ES Payment Internal Revenue Service 2023 Form Department of the Treasury Voucher 1 OMB No. 1545-0971 File only if the estate or trust is making a payment of estimated tax. Return this voucher Calendar year—Due April 18, 2023 with check or money order payable to “United States Treasury .” Write the estate’s or Amount of estimated tax you are paying trust’s EIN and “2023 Form 1041-ES” on the check or money order. Do not send cash. by check or Dollars Cents Enclose, but don’t staple or attach, the payment with this voucher. money order. Employer identification number Fiscal year filers—enter year ending Name of estate or trust Name and title of fiduciary (month and year) Type or print Address of fiduciary (number, street, and room or suite no.) City, state, and ZIP code -7- |