Employers given Feb. 15 deadline to update tax tables

Hello folks,

This morning I’ve decided that the most important thing I can tell you about is a change to the  tax table.   Take some coffee; here goes.

Moving at the speed of a midterm election, the Trump Administration yesterday unveiled new withholding tables to be used by employers no later than February 15 2018.  The tables reflect the rate changes made in the tax cut legislation passed by Congress in December. Many voters, I mean employees, wouldn’t otherwise see the direct benefit of the tax cuts until they file their tax returns next year.

The W-4 is the form you filled out when you started your job in which you indicated the federal income tax you wanted withheld from your paycheck. You might not have bothered looking at it since then and you should take this opportunity to review your withholdings and see if it is time to make some changes. In a reflection of just how quickly the Treasury Department wants people to see the impact of tax reform on their paychecks, the IRS is coming out with the withholding tables even as it has not completed an update to the W-4.

 

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