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The article focuses on independent contractors and freelancers who have work to do when filing taxes in comparision traditional employees and mentions advice on how to make it more manageable.

Imagine that your employer sent you a letter just before Christmas informing you that it failed to withhold the proper amount of income to cover your 2010 tax bill, and would begin deducting that extra amount from your paycheck right after New Year's. That's what happened to 61 employees with same-sex partners at Yale University, in New Haven, Conn., which made an inadvertent payroll error that will mean thousands of dollars in extra taxes withdrawn from paychecks of many of these workers this year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that U.S. employees who receive stock options from companies could also be subjected to the alternative minimum tax, as of January 2006.