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kdieick t1_j6br07l wrote

> I went to update my W4

> "If you don't complete this form, your employer is required to withhold income tax at the highest default status".

You can't "update" a form that you've never filled in before, so which is it?

It would also depend on what kind of income you receive, what your deductions and adjustments are, and what kind of employee you are.

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ichosetobehere t1_j6bshev wrote

This was in ADP. I've never filled it out before

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blakeh95 t1_j6bvnsi wrote

It’s highly unlikely you “never filled it out before.” You probably did it at onboarding, incorrectly, and haven’t updated it since.

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ichosetobehere t1_j6bwbqk wrote

what does doing it "incorrectly" mean? Not requesting additional withholding?

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ResidentAssumption4 t1_j6bxkvm wrote

If you claim like 6 dependents when you should be claiming 0, that would be incorrect.

What are boxes 1 and 2 on your W2? You might have entered something incorrectly in TurboTax assuming you did pay the expected amount of income tax.

Taxes suck. I’ve gone through and made mistakes that gave me an initial heart attack.

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doktorhladnjak t1_j6bxl81 wrote

Many things could go wrong. Two main ones are not including your spouse’s job on the form if you are married, or not including a second job if you are single or married.

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blakeh95 t1_j6e8zwq wrote

Married without checking the “spouse works” box.

2 jobs without doing the same.

Claiming “1” on the new form would do about $2,000 of underwithholding. It wasn’t right on the old form either, but a lot of folks had it drilled into their heads to put either “0” or “1”.

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