{"id":1047,"date":"2009-05-29T22:07:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T02:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2009-05-29T22:07:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T02:07:49","slug":"question-of-the-week-how-does-an-employee-increase-the-amount-of-federal-income-tax-withholding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2009\/05\/question-of-the-week-how-does-an-employee-increase-the-amount-of-federal-income-tax-withholding\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: How Does an Employee Increase the Amount of Federal Income Tax Withholding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">This week\u2019s question comes from Burt, an office manager. An employee filled out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> and now is not having any federal income tax (FIT) withheld from his check. He wants to have $20 withheld each week since he thinks he\u2019ll owe about $1,000 in FIT. How does an employee increase the amount of\u00a0FIT withholding? <span style=\"color: black;\">Workers who wish to adjust their withholding should file a revised <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4, <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Employee\u2019s Withholding Allowance Certificate<\/em><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"> or its Spanish equivalent, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw4sp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Formulario W-4(SP), <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Certificado de Exenci\u00f3n de la Retenci\u00f3n del Empleado<\/em><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"> to<span style=\"color: black;\"> adjust their withholding. Line 6 may be used to increase the amount withheld for FIT from each paycheck. If the employee files <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> and claims the same exemption and enters $20 on line 6, $20 will be withheld each paycheck unless earnings increase such that FIT must be withheld. In that case, the withholding will be the calculated amount, plus $20. Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> if you have any question on FIT withholding.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Burt, an office manager. An employee filled out a Form W-4 and now is not having any federal income tax (FIT) withheld from his check. He wants to have $20 withheld each week since he thinks he\u2019ll owe about $1,000 in FIT. How does an employee increase the amount of\u00a0FIT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[650,649,652,234,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}