How to confirm ES tax payments

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

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.

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.

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

The IRS has a site EFTPS

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.

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.

Individuals can make all Federal income tax payments, including ES payments, through

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