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ezPaycheck Troubleshooting: Federal Income Tax Issue

ezPaycheck payroll software calculates the federal tax based on company settings (ie: pay weekly or monthly), employee settings (ie: Married or single) and tax tables.


Issue #1: Federal Income Tax Is $0

Two reason can caused the such issue:

1. The employee's income is not high enough to withhold federal income tax or this employee claimed high number of exemptions
You can test it easily by increasing the payment.

2. On employee set up screen, the "federal income tax" option is unchecked by mistake. You can edit employee tax option to solve this issue.




Issue #2: Wrong Federal Tax Calculation

Reason 1. Wrong settings:

- Please make sure you select the correct pay period on company setup. (ie: monthly, weekly)

- Please make sure you set up the correct employee status (ie: married or single, W4 option)

Reason 2. Pre-tax deduction.

When you generate a paycheck, you can view the summary part. If the Taxable Income is lower than the Gross Income, that means you set up some deduction that is exempt from federal and state taxes.



Solution:You can review each dedution details. If the deduction is set up to be exempt from federal and state tax by mistake, please change the option. After you delete the wrong paycheck, you add new paycheck. You will see the correc federal and state tax amount.






Issue #3: The W4 option change

IRS published the new 2020 Version W-4 with major change: allowances are no longer used for the redesigned Form W-4. All new employees first paid after 2019 must use the redesigned form. Your employees may see more or less federal tax if they change W4 option.

You will see the W4 option when you add/edit an employee's settings.

    



More Information: How to Verify the Federal Tax

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  • How to Calculate 2022 Federal Income Withhold Manually



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