I'm a salaried employee (teacher). I earn about 75k. I recently got a side gig teaching at a community College where I earn 8k. I have two children, 5 and 1. My wife earns 82k. We file as married filing jointly.
In August I updated my W-4 to reflect my new wages. I followed what I thought were straight forward instructions, and somehow my recent paystub showed $0 paid to federal taxes. The code shows as "Federal Tax:M~". In the past, my federal tax deduction from each check was $263.51 for several months in a row. I called HR, and the person I spoke to wasn't very helpful. She basically said, "All we can do is input the information from your W-4 and the rest happens automatically."
Under the "Claim Dependents" section, I entered 4000, as it says to multiply children under 17 by 2000.
I followed the directions for page 3 based on my earnings at the new job, but my Doculivery portal doesn't show any info other than the first page, which only shows the 4000 under the claim dependents section.
I know it's hard to tell from this information alone, but can anyone help me out here? I don't want to get slammed by owing taxes next year. I thought about averaging my past federal taxes taken out with my salary and just putting that in, but I feel like that's not addressing what went wrong here.
Submitted September 20, 2021 at 08:52AM by facktoetum https://ift.tt/3EsgF7M
