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Documentation for ESTAX.COM
A program to estimate income tax for the 1987 tax year
I wrote this program for my own use, mostly for fun. It is possible
others would find it useful; so I willingly release it to the public domain.
This is the first time I have uploaded it, so you will not find it anywhere
else-so far, at any rate.
With more than half the tax year gone already, the program is probably of
limited usefulness to anyone, but it will enable you to determine whether you
will have paid enough tax by the end of the year. If not, it will tell you by
how much you will have underpaid.
The ESTAX program has some shortcomings, I confess. Next year's version
should perhaps be written to include certain improvements. You can use it
intuitively, but if both you and your spouse are receiving earned income you
may have to improvise when it comes to answering the question as to how much
your joint salary is per pay period, how many pay periods remain to December
31 and how much tax is withheld each time. It'll be easy enough to combine
the sums for both of you if you are paid at the same intervals, but if one of
you is paid monthly and the other semimonthly you'll have a problem. You'll
also have to add up you interest/dividend income to enter it in each case. Try
it anyway. I hope it will be useful.
The required files are ESTAX.COM the program itself, ESTAX.DOC, this text
file, and four DATA files: SCH87???.DAT, which contain the tax schedule data
from which the program determines the tax due.
J.CASE
HOUSTON
9/03/87