Something smells fishy with my w-2, and it's not a yeast infection.
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Anyway, my boss put in that I only paid $80 into federal tax w/h on my w-2. Now I know this is waaaaaay off. I have (SOME) of my paystubs from between the months of August and December, and between those few months, I only have nine of the paystubs. When I added up the fed. tax deduction on on the paystubs...NINE of 26 paystubs from last year...I paid $72 dollars.
So how could it be that for the other SEVENTEEN paychecks throughout the year, I only paid eight dollars?
My boss' business has slowed down a lot. They get nervous whenever I ask anything about my checks.
Would they benefit if they lied about this on my W-2? Not only was my fed tax w/h lower, but so was everything else. I claim zero on my w-4.
Thanks!
Employers are required to send your W-2 by Jan 31 so if it was postmarked before today it isn't late. Do you work the same amount of hours each week? If your hours fluctuate it is very possible to have some paychecks without any withholding. You should be keeping all of your paystubs throughout the year so you can verify that your W-2 matches. I don't see where they would benefit saying your withholding was less unless they actually took it out of your check and kept it instead of paying their payroll taxes.
Yes, I work the same amount of hours every week, save maybe one or two hours.
It was dumb of me to misplace most of the stubs, but I do have a paper that they physically had to write eerytjing I made, check-by-check, and had deducted from my checks (FICA, Medicare, state, and fed), from between 10/2011 through 7/2012. I've got it in a folder somewhere, and I'll did it out tomorrow.
It sounds possible that they could have kept that extra money from federal. They also never deduct the correct percentage from my checks for FICA. I'm assuming because employers have to match to FICA what the employee pays into FICA. They usually leave it about $10 short from what it should be.
Quoting Char-Bear:Employers are required to send your W-2 by Jan 31 so if it was postmarked before today it isn't late. Do you work the same amount of hours each week? If your hours fluctuate it is very possible to have some paychecks without any withholding. You should be keeping all of your paystubs throughout the year so you can verify that your W-2 matches. I don't see where they would benefit saying your withholding was less unless they actually took it out of your check and kept it instead of paying their payroll taxes.
I would call the IRS and discuss this with them. Only because it seems very off that you only paid $80 in federal taxes for the whole year. I paid more than that for 6 months.
Being a SAHM for the past 5 yrs has made me