{"id":217,"date":"2009-02-20T20:33:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T01:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-02-20T20:33:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T01:33:40","slug":"question-of-the-week-why-did-federal-income-tax-withholding-start-on-my-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2009\/02\/question-of-the-week-why-did-federal-income-tax-withholding-start-on-my-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Why Did Federal Income Tax Withholding Start on My Wages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">This week\u2019s question comes from Angela, a part-time employee. I only work a few hours each month to help with school expenses. I claimed exemption from withholding when I started work last year. Yesterday\u2019s check had federal withholding for the first time. Why did federal income tax withholding start on my wages? Answer: Employees who have provided a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4, Employee\u2019s Withholding Allowance Certificate<\/a>, claiming exemption from federal income tax withholding needed to file a new 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> by February 16, 2009 in order to continue their exemption from federal income tax withholding. Any employee who did not provide a 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> claiming exemption before last Monday must have tax withheld based on a previously filed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> not claiming exemption, if available, or using single, zero allowances, if not. File a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> or <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> to claim exemption from withholding or to correct the number of withholding allowances claimed. Employers may not refund any federal income tax withheld unless the over-withheld tax was due to a calculation error. Tax properly withheld from an employee who failed to file an updated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-4<\/a> is not considered tax withheld due to a calculation error. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Angela, a part-time employee. I only work a few hours each month to help with school expenses. I claimed exemption from withholding when I started work last year. Yesterday\u2019s check had federal withholding for the first time. Why did federal income tax withholding start on my wages? Answer: Employees who [&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":[650,649,464,234,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}