wdw_dine_junkie
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- Oct 22, 2001
I'm pretty sure we file married. I need to check.
Ok. And to make things even more confusing with that W4 form that you file with your employer, is that selection in Box 3, has absolutely zero to do with how you actually file your tax return with the IRS. I am sure you do file your yearly return as Married. But that box doesn't care about that at all. It only has to do with which withholding table it uses to take the tax money out of your paychecks. I've been saying for years they need to make this form and worksheet way clearer than it is, I work in HR. So that's the thing to check with work and it sounds like you were going to be revisiting your selections anyway soon. 'Married but withholding as single' will take more out of your check so you don't owe. You can probably leave yourself with 1 allowance doing that and get closer to IRS net zero, which is the goal. Your spouse may likely have to as well, but see how much that takes out and estimate from there with what you owed this year.
I definitely don't want to confuse your W4 form with your actual tax return here.
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