3220 Owner Estimated Tax Payments
Quarterly estimated income tax paid from business funds on behalf of a pass-through owner. A draw, not a business expense.
In Solo Superstars
For sole proprietors and single-member LLCs the tax is the owner’s, so booking it as an expense would understate profit. Categorize the IRS or state payment here; year-end rolls it into equity alongside draws.
Example
A $2,500 payment to the IRS from checking: debit 3220 2,500, credit 1010 2,500.
Codes shown are the defaults a new workspace starts with. Yours may be renamed or renumbered — check Accounting › Chart of accounts. See the full default chart.
Also called
- estimated tax payments
Related
- Estimated tax — Quarterly income-tax payments owed when nobody withholds for you. The tax calendar shows the four dates.
- 3200 Owner's Draw — Money you take out of the business for yourself. Not an expense and not salary; it reduces equity. A contra-equity account.
- Year-end close — Closing the fiscal year: zeroing revenue and expense accounts into retained earnings, rolling owner draws into equity, and locking the year.
- Chart of accounts — The list of buckets your money can be sorted into: assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, expenses. New workspaces start with a default set you can rename or extend.
- Default chart — The chart of accounts every new workspace starts with, numbered the way QuickBooks users expect. Yours may have been renamed or extended since.