estimated-taxes

estimated-taxes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (2,208 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for estimating and scheduling US quarterly tax payments for self-employed people, freelancers, and small-business owners. These payments send tax to the IRS during the year when no employer is withholding enough from pay.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate Form 1040-ES payments, check whether quarterly payments may be required, and identify the payment deadlines.
Why use it?
It helps avoid waiting until the annual tax return to pay taxes that were due during the year, which can result in underpayment penalties. It also covers income tax, self-employment tax, and safe-harbor calculations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to estimate Form 1040-ES payments, check whether quarterly payments may be required, and identify the payment deadlines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/receiptor-ai/bookkeeping-skills/estimated-taxes
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills --skill estimated-taxes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,208 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00096 $0.02208
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01104
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00221

Measured 12d ago against content hash 32edd1427051, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

estimated-taxes scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/estimated-taxes/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Estimated Tax Payments

Calculate and schedule quarterly estimated tax payments to avoid underpayment penalties. Essential for self-employed individuals, freelancers, and small business owners who don't have taxes withheld from a paycheck.

Why you need to pay quarterly

Employees have taxes withheld every paycheck. Self-employed people don't. The IRS expects to receive tax payments throughout the year, not one lump sum in April. If you wait until filing to pay everything, you'll owe an underpayment penalty.

You must make estimated payments if you expect to owe $1,000 or more in tax for the year after subtracting withholding and credits.

You're exempt if: You had zero tax liability last year (100% of prior-year tax is $0), or your withholding from other sources (W-2 job, pension, etc.) covers your expected tax.

Payment schedule

Quarter Covers income from Payment due
Q1 January 1 – March 31 April 15
Q2 April 1 – May 31 June 15
Q3 June 1 – August 31 September 15
Q4 September 1 – December 31 January 15 (next year)

Note: Q2 covers only 2 months and Q3 covers 3 months — the periods are uneven. If a due date falls on a weekend or holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.

How to pay: IRS Direct Pay (irs.gov/payments), EFTPS (Electronic Federal Tax Payment System), credit/debit card (processors charge a fee), or mail a check with a 1040-ES payment voucher. Direct Pay or EFTPS are free and instant-confirmation.

The two things you're paying

1. Self-employment tax (Social Security + Medicare)

This is the self-employed equivalent of FICA. Employees pay 7.65% and their employer pays 7.65%. As a self-employed person, you pay both halves.

Calculation:

Net Schedule C profit                               $100,000
× 92.35% (adjustment factor)                        × 0.9235
= Self-employment tax base                          $92,350
× 15.3% (12.4% Social Security + 2.9% Medicare)     × 0.153
= Self-employment tax                               $14,130

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 158 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 32edd1427051

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estimated-taxes is a skill published in the GitHub repository Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,208 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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