{"id":2154,"date":"2009-12-04T22:14:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T03:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2009-12-04T22:14:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T03:14:30","slug":"question-of-the-week-do-employees-claiming-exemption-from-withholding-need-to-file-a-new-form-w-4-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2009\/12\/question-of-the-week-do-employees-claiming-exemption-from-withholding-need-to-file-a-new-form-w-4-for-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Do Employees Claiming Exemption from Withholding Need to File a New Form W-4 for 2010?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Shawn, an HR director. We have several employees claiming exemption from federal withholding. Do employees claiming exemption from withholding need to file a new Form W-4 for 2010? Answer: Employees who have provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4, Employee\u2019s Withholding Allowance Certificate<\/a> claiming exemption from federal income tax withholding must file a new 2010 <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> by February 16, 2010 in order to continue their exemption from federal income tax withholding. Employers must start withholding on February 16, 2010 if employees have not provided a 2010 <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> claiming exemption. Even employees who are no longer claiming exemption should file a 2010 <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> so that employers may calculate the proper amount of withholding. If an employee has not provided a 2010 <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> by February 16, 2010, the employer should withhold based on a previously filed <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> not claiming exemption, if available or using single, zero allowances, if not. Spanish-speaking employees may complete <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw4sp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Formulario W-4(SP), Certificado de Exenci\u00f3n de la Retenci\u00f3n del Empleado<\/a>. Upon request, <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> can provide employers with pre-printed 2010 <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Forms W-4<\/a> for all active employees. <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> will not automatically change any employee\u2019s claimed withholding allowances. Employers should update the allowances claimed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visionpayroll.com\/index.php?id=3\" target=\"_blank\">logging in<\/a> to their company file or providing <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> with the updated information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Shawn, an HR director. We have several employees claiming exemption from federal withholding. Do employees claiming exemption from withholding need to file a new Form W-4 for 2010? Answer: Employees who have provided a Form W-4, Employee\u2019s Withholding Allowance Certificate claiming exemption from federal income tax withholding must file a [&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":[650,649,234,901,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154"}],"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=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}