<prompt> Human: Hey, Im freaking out a little right now because I just finished entering my info into Taxact to do my taxes and its coming up like I owe 400 dollars in taxes! I only made 24,000 in 2017 and my hours were recently reduced to the point where my monthly expenses are way bigger than my paycheck. I will be getting a way better job soon but at the moment I cant even afford 400 dollars. I have had to use all my savings so I cant fall back on that. I am a single 23 year old female who recently graduated college.So my situation is that I had 4 jobs last year. I never had any gaps between the jobs, some of them even overlapped but they were low paying and part time jobs. I only made 24,000 total and thought Id get back some money since I made so little. However the problem is that one of my jobs was as a freelance medical interpreter. I was given a 1099 misc and it says I earned 1,300 dollars over the course of the year doing the interpreting. I think thats what threw my taxes off and made me owe money because taxes were never taken out of that money I made. But could it really throw my taxes off so much that now I owe so much money? Assistant: 15 of 1300 is 195 plus 7.65 of the employee portion of social security and Medicare is 99.45 plus the 7.65 of the employer portion of those taxes is another 99.45. All together it looks like 393.90 owed from the 1099 job alone for federal taxes not including any state taxes. Also, if your jobs didnt know about each other then they were likely withholding less than they would have if they were the sole employer paying you 24k.Human: Thanks for your reply. I always knew Id owe taxes for that job, but I thought itd at least equal itself out to where Id be getting some amount of money back from my other jobs and Id either receive very little back or have to pay very little. Did I do something wrong with my taxes or was this just bad planning on my part for taxes?  <response>: For 1099 positions you should actually be paying estimated quarterly taxes to the IRS. With the low amount it isnt that big of a deal, but you needed to set money aside for taxes anyway. If you were able to pay the 400 this would be a non issue. So while you could have had more withheld from your w-2 jobs since you knew this would happen, I would say this was just bad planning. 