IRS Rolls Out New Income-Tax Withholding Guidelines

MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 22:  A copy of a IRS 1040 tax form is seen at an H&R Block office on the day President Donald Trump signed the Republican tax cut bill in Washington, DC  on December 22, 2017 in Miami, Florida. Kathy Pickering, vice president of regulatory affairs and executive director of The Tax Institute at H&R Block released a statement about the new tax bill saying, " ItÕs going to change the way you think about and plan your income taxes. YouÕll need to take a fresh look at your individual situation to know your outcome and new strategies to use to get the best tax outcome.Ó  (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 22: A copy of a IRS 1040 tax form is seen at an H&R Block office on the day President Donald Trump signed the Republican tax cut bill in Washington, DC on December 22, 2017 in Miami, Florid... MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 22: A copy of a IRS 1040 tax form is seen at an H&R Block office on the day President Donald Trump signed the Republican tax cut bill in Washington, DC on December 22, 2017 in Miami, Florida. Kathy Pickering, vice president of regulatory affairs and executive director of The Tax Institute at H&R Block released a statement about the new tax bill saying, " It's going to change the way you think about and plan your income taxes. You'll need to take a fresh look at your individual situation to know your outcome and new strategies to use to get the best tax outcome." (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The Internal Revenue Service is making changes to the guidelines that help workers determine how much of their paycheck is withheld by their employer as income taxes.

The IRS rolled out new income-tax withholding tables Thursday as it begins to adapt to changes in the tax law enacted last month.

The guidelines require employers to use new withholding tax rates no later than Feb. 15.

Individual taxpayers aren’t required to make any changes right now.

Later this year, the IRS expects to revise the Form W-4, which employees use to ultimately determine how much of their pay is withheld toward income taxes.

The IRS also plans to release a new withholding calculator to help individual taxpayers determine the correct amount of withholding by the end of February.

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  1. See Munchkin said they were working on this!

  2. Will this fuck up my withholding like during George HW’s economic jumpstart program?

  3. This is Donald’s economic jackoff program.

  4. In theory, it should not.

    This is a crew, however, that couldn’t run a one-car funeral, so who knows?

  5. Probably not. However, the GOP has been starving and browbeating the IRS for a long time, and the tax law passed very late in the calendar year. I’d take a closer look at withholding amounts if:

    – there is a substantial change that you can’t attribute to a specific change in the tax law
    – you are substantially affected by large changes made in the tax law (e.g. you pay combined state/local taxes well over $10k, you have an enormous mortgage, you have a mortgage on a vacation home, you have a large home equity loan, you have multiple non-minor dependents in your household, etc.)

    Because some employees will receive two months or more of pay before employers must use the new tables, it may be important to determine whether your employer will do a one-time makeup to correct for the outdated withholding, will simply shift to the new tables without correcting earlier amounts. The latter seems the most likely to me, and might even be the only option available to employers.

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