Safe Harbor tax payment question

[tominboise]

We retired in Oct 2020 and had a large tax liability that year from our wage income. In 2021 I made 4 estimated tax payments of $1500 each, which was way lower then my 2020 tax bill, of course, but I figured I had to pay something in. Anyway, we manage our income for an ACA subsidy, so bacically I have no income tax due with our standard deductions, etc.

My question, in 2022, what would be my safe harbor tax payment? 0$ since I owed no tax in 2021?

 

[cathy63]

From the 1040-ES instructions:

You don’t have to pay estimated tax for 2022 if you were a U.S. citizen or resident alien for all of 2021 and you had no tax liability for the full 12-month 2021 tax year. You had no tax liability for 2021 if your total tax was zero or you didn’t have to file an income tax return.