Is the IRS Required to Pay Your Taxes as You Earn Your Income?

I was surprised when i did my tax return of how much I owed, because i had no withholdings on dividends and capital gains. Here's the deal, you're absolutely right. The i r s requires that we pay our taxes as we earn our income. It is a nuisance, there's no two ways about it. And special gets worse when people have very fluctuating income wher they have no idea how much money they're earning this month or what they'll be earning in the next quarter.