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Prepare for tax time with a tax savings bucket

Put away a portion of your payments to prepare for your income tax bill.

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Get ready to plan your taxes in a smarter way that will help lower any worry and confusion you may have about the money you owe for income taxes.

You will set aside a certain portion of each payment you receive to save up for your income taxes.


Set up a tax savings bucket

You have control over how much of your payments goes into this savings bucket, and can update it or withdraw from it at any time.

  1. In the top navigation menu, select Finance > select Balance

  2. Find your savings buckets > select Create Bucket

  3. Enter your tax savings rate

    1. Work with your financial advisor to decide what this rate should be

  4. Select Create tax bucket

How transactions appear after creating a bucket

The transaction amounts in your transactions table will show:

  • The amounts after processing fees are subtracted

  • The amounts before any savings bucket amounts are subtracted

For example, if you set up a savings bucket with a rate at 10%, receive a payment for $150, have 3% in processing fees for the transaction, and have no other savings buckets set up.

  • Your Transactions table amount would show $145.50 for that transaction

    • $150 minus $4.50 (the 3% processing fee)

  • $14.55 would be added to your tax savings bucket

    • 10% of the transaction amount (your smart tax rate) after processing fees

  • $130.95 would be added to your available balance

    • The transaction amount after processing fees and tax savings bucket withholdings

You can view exactly how much of each transaction went to your tax savings bucket by selecting that transaction from your transactions table.


Manage your tax savings bucket

You can manually change your savings percentage, stop or resume saving, or transfer funds into and out of this bucket.

  1. In the top navigation menu, select Finance > select Balance

  2. Find your savings buckets > select the triple-dot icon

    1. From here, make your changes to the tax savings bucket

    2. Use the Bucket Actions table below to learn more about your options

  3. Select Save Changes

Bucket actions

Bucket action

Description

Change savings %

Increase or decrease a bucket’s savings percentage.

Stop saving for taxes


Resume tax savings

Temporarily stop saving and keep the money in your tax bucket, or resume saving if you previously paused.

Move to available balance

Move the entire amount from this bucket to your available balance and either keep or stop saving.

You can only transfer the entire amount held in the bucket to your available. Partial transfers aren’t currently available.

If you stop saving, this bucket will be deleted, though you can start again with a new bucket at any time.

Transfer to

Transfer funds into this bucket from your available balance. You can transfer up to your total available balance.

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