I made a payment on November 27 and I'm still locked out. At this point I think it's fair to say that they have an undocumented policy of only allowing one estimated tax payment via PayPal per quarter. There is another workaround here: <removed> But I have other ways to max out the Chase Freedom/Discover PayPal bonuses, so I'm planning on doing that instead.
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Not sure if anybody is still following this, but if they are, as of today (October 15), it looks like the mechanism limiting payments (specifically PayPal, but possibly all) is reset. I didn't actually make a payment but the PayPal window stayed open, which it didn't yesterday. This suggests there is some kind of odd quarter definition, but I'm not sure what, maybe 7/14-10/14?
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Just FYI, this is definitely tied to your social security number. Change that by one digit, click the PayPal link, and it will come up normally. Change it back to your correct SSN, and the PayPal pop-up disappears immediately again.
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Welp, Oct. 1 and it's still not working, so that blows my theory about too many payments in a quarter, unless they use really strange quarters...
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I figured payUSAtax used the same schedule as Pay1040 given here: Form 1040ES Estimated Tax - Tax Year 2021: 1st Quarter 03/01/21 - 05/15/21, 2nd Quarter 05/15/21 - 07/15/21, 3rd Quarter 07/15/21 - 10/15/21, 4th Quarter 10/15/21 - 01/01/22, 7 AM ET So I made an estimated payment on 7/14, hoping it would count toward 2nd quarter. But now I keep getting the error. So I suspect maybe it just uses standard calendar quarters? If so then it wouldn't reset until October 1.
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I am getting this currently. I think it may be caused by trying to make more than the allowed number of payments per period (2 per year for tax owed, 2 per quarter for estimated tax payments, etc.).
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