Guess too high and you will be making an interest-free loan to the U.S. Treasury.
Currently, banks receive one-quarter percent interest for making a risk-free loan to the Fed.
"It's an involuntary interest-free loan to the state, " complains Beverly Hills tax lawyer Henry Pattiz .
Tax Withholding: If you receive a sizeable refund, you are giving the government a tax free loan.
Shepreth Wildlife Park in Cambridgeshire received the 10-year interest-free loan from a person who wished to remain anonymous.
Many people celebrate their tax refund as if it was a gift, rather than the return of a forced interest-free loan.
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An interest-free loan for new computers is a simple way to start.
Sell in ten years and you in effect have an interest-free loan from the IRS for ten years on your 1999 tax bill.
Back in the 1960s, the Kennedy Administration deemed deferral an unwarranted interest-free loan from the Treasury and proposed taxing all international income as earned.
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The best young players may get an interest-free loan from a sponsor or trust, but they will be paying it off for most of their lives.
Gift certificates are a great deal for stores: Around 8% of all certificates are never redeemed, which creates a kind of long-term interest-free loan for the store.
First, tax losses represent an interest-free loan that defers capital gains taxes you would otherwise owe into the distant future, and can even eliminate them entirely when you die.
The loan scheme will be open to buyers who have saved 5% of the deposit towards a property, giving them another 15% of the cost as an interest free loan.
Projects are expected to pay back the money allocated through the fund in full and the estimated time scale for repaying the interest free loan is a requirement in the application process.
Louis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez advanced an interest free loan of 17, 000 ducats from their own pockets to help pay for the voyage, as did Don Isaac Abrabanel, rabbi and Jewish statesman.
The prospect of an interest free loan covering 20% of the cost of a 'newly built home' - as the chancellor described it - could stimulate house building and provide far more starter homes.
Regarding such a switcheroo as "income" is like making an interest-free loan and then telling yourself, as the debtor pays back only your principal, that you are earning a generous return on your money.
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That's also why so many taxpayers actually ask the government to withhold more money from their paychecks than they need to--effectively paying their taxes upfront while giving the government an interest-free loan--because it's the only way they can be sure they'll have enough to pay the IRS when April 15 rolls around.
Using tax loss harvesting to defer capital gains taxes is like receiving an interest-free loan from the IRS. Also, if you (and your spouse) are still holding the shares when you die, your heirs will receive a stepped-up basis, and you will have gotten the up-front benefit from tax loss harvesting while avoiding the taxes on the back end entirely.
It was bought with an interest-free marriage loan of 7, 000 DDR marks.
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On offer to commuters during Wednesday's Car Free Day have been free parking on the outskirts of the city and a free bike loan scheme.
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The players from Govindpuri are in an NGO-run school, and Neha now plans to study for a degree in physical education, perhaps with an interest-free microfinance loan, and return as a coach.
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The first scheme, in Kensington in Liverpool, will provide 2000 computers available free on loan to local residents, along with cheap internet access and a special local web portal and extra training opportunities.
Why look around, and you will see a lot of free stuff for loan the collected works of John Wayne, Calamity Jane, Stephen King novels.
Cutting tax breaks for firms as part of the budgetary tightening now planned by the government to free the IMF loan would make the business environment even more difficult.
Otherwise Hughton must rely on loan signings and free transfers to improve his squad for the Premier League.
In Mr Campbell's view fewer expensive loan shows will free up financial and creative resources for innovative displays of works from the permanent collection.
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Jamie Ward pulled a goal back for the Rams with a fine free-kick and on-loan Tottenham midfielder Tom Carroll pulled another back deep into stoppage time.
Striker DJ Campbell, whose goals saw off Nottingham Forest in the play-off semi-final, returned to Leicester at the end of his loan spell, while free agent Robert Koren opted to move to Hull.
This argument overlooks a business loan, the already existing free market solution to the problem.
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