View Single Post
healingme4me
Perpetually Pondering
Community Liaison
 
healingme4me's Avatar
healingme4me Needs a little reading lamp.
 
Member Since: Apr 2013
Location: New England
Posts: 46,298 (SuperPoster!)
10 yr Member
4,168 hugs
given
PC PoohBah!
Default Feb 16, 2019 at 09:16 AM
 
One of the best tips, going forward, that I could give you is to fix your W-4s and withhold $10 on Fed and $5 on State. Or more, but back in the early 90s my stepdad made sure that I did that when I started working.

Can you take your W2 and fill the numbers into a free online tax provider? The IRS even has links. That'll put your mind at ease.

To add. You've gotta figure he was fully blue blooded, a union Construction guy who lived through the last major tax reform in the 80s.

To add more. I survived this one. Adjusted my W4s under the guise of plausible deniability. I had more withheld and didn't notice much difference in "more in my paycheck"... We have an employee page at work and I played with my settings to make it so that I saw no changes. I played with single and head of household and withholding numbers. Never trust the government when they say more in your wallet...

Last edited by healingme4me; Feb 16, 2019 at 09:29 AM..
healingme4me is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
 
Thanks for this!
WishfulThinker66