Form W-4 for 2019 will be similar to 2018 version
Following feedback from the payroll and tax communities, the Treasury Department and the IRS will incorporate important changes into a new version of the Form W-4, Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate, for 2020. The 2019 version of the Form W-4 will be similar to the current 2018 version. A new draft version of the W-4 for 2019 will be available in the coming weeks.
The IRS will continue working closely with the payroll and the tax community as it makes additional changes to the Form W-4 for use in 2020. The new version will help employees improve withholding accuracy, and fully reflect changes included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
For the current 2018 tax year, the IRS continues to strongly urge taxpayers to review their tax withholding situation as soon as possible to avoid having too little or too much withheld from their paychecks. Click here to perform a quick “paycheck checkup” using the IRS withholding calculator.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act changed the way tax is calculated.
The IRS encourages everyone to perform a “paycheck checkup” to see if you have the right amount of tax withheld for your personal situation.
For employees, withholding is the amount of federal income tax withheld from your paycheck. The amount of income tax your employer withholds from your regular pay depends on two things:
- The amount you earn.
- The information you give your employer on Form W–4.
For help with your withholding, you may use the Withholding Calculator. You can use the Withholding Calculator to estimate your 2018 income tax. The Withholding Calculator compares that estimate to your current tax withholding and can help you decide if you need to change your withholding with your employer.
More details about the Withholding Calculator and the new 2018 withholding tables can be found on the Frequently Asked Question pages:
Everything to Know About the Form W-4
A standout amongst the most imperative finance tax documents is set for an upgrade—once more.
On June 6, the IRS distributed a draft variant of the 2019 Form W-4 to reflect changes made by a years ago’s notable expense change charge. The news speaks to a finish on office comments made at a finance gathering recently. You can read Namely’s inclusion of that occasion here.
Recompenses Eliminated
While the full name of the Form W-4 remains the “Withholding Allowance Certificate,” any notices of duty stipends have been generally stripped from the frame.
For setting, remittances are claims a representative can make to diminish their assessable wage. Before, workers could guarantee a kid, ward, life partner, or even themselves as a stipend. The frame incorporated an individual remittance worksheet that representatives could use to compute what amount ought to be withheld from their paychecks to abstain from owing come assess documenting season. You can take in more about stipends here.
The new, draft rendition of the shape gets rid of this decades-old process and the recompense worksheet. Keeping in mind the end goal to decide paycheck withholdings, it rather requests that workers show particular dollar sums for various fields including:
Nonwage pay including interest or profits
For people with different occupations or the individuals who are hitched and anticipating recording mutually, the aggregate sum earned from different employments
Organized and different conclusions
Extra sum workers need to withhold from every paycheck
On the off chance that a representative feels awkward sharing their nonwage or life partner’s salary with their boss, the shape trains them utilize the IRS’s online mini-computer to decide the amount to incorporate into the extra sum withheld field.
HR Implications
HR and finance experts should take note of that the as of late distributed Form W-4 speaks to a working draft. The office is relied upon to distribute a finished variant of the 2019 frame by late August.
Given the real ramifications of duty change, the IRS has encouraged citizens to “check their check” this year and alongside abstain from documenting season shocks. While the office has not yet shown that it will require all representatives to document new Form W-4s for 2019, it will probably unequivocally urge them to. At any rate, HR groups should refresh their onboarding procedure to join the new frame.