W4 for Married filing jointly with dependents. w-4 Married filing jointly, withholding.

What if we have 2 children, but my firstborn is from a previous relationship.... do I include $4000 on my husbands updated W-4 and mine? Or, because I claim my firstborn at my job and he claims our second son at his job, he should only put down $2000 and I also only put down $2000 for mine if filing married jointly? Thanks!

When I check box C of step 2 on w4 , how should I fill second page ? (Step 2(b). Should I leave it blank then ? My husband’s and mine pay is same

Thank you for your video. I have a few questions? First, with the video you provided above, should the spouse who makes the most fill this out like you presented or should both fill out the W-4 form the same? If the answer is only the larger income earner than what should the smaller income earner put down?

Thanks for the video Katie. Do you have a video to go thru the Tax Withholding Estimator?

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My only question is that if we are filing jointly do we BOTH put the $2000 on the kid line or are we covered if one of us do it since we are filing together?

Is this video an example equivalent to claiming zero on the old form OR is it equivalent to claiming the highest number possible (perhaps 3 with this example of two-income household with one dependent)?

Whose W4 does that 4c extra amount go on? Despite the instructions seeming to indicate the higher paying job, my husband is trying to insist it goes on mine, when he makes 10x what I do. He makes 85000/yr as a full time worker and I'm a less than part-time substitute preschool teacher who made just under $8500 for the entire year (the year before that I didn't even make $5000)... I may or may not even get a paycheck depending upon if I am called to work or not.

After 18 years my employer suddenly stop withholding federal from my paycheck. when I asked why they told me to seek a tax professional and complete a new W4. I had never completed a W4 like this...i was used to my employer calculating everything for me...well I'm glad I came to the right place. Hopefully we won't owe as much at the end of THIS year. Thank you for a very informative easy to follow video. Much blessing!

Thank you soooo much I was bumping my head with this form couldn’t figure it out. But you made it so simple to understand Thank you!

If only one person works do you still do the thing on page 4

Hi i have a question it looks like i filled out the form correctly i entered 6,000 because i have 3 kids but i realized that i have no federal coming out from mt account do you know why?

What if my husband is self employed but we file jointly?

Hi there! If married filing jointly, and both of us check 2C, would we BOTH put the respective extra withholding number (4C) on our W4s, or just one of ours?

Both of us work (one higher paying than the other), with one child. We will be filing married jointly on tax season. DO WE BOTH PUT 2000 on OUR W4 under our 1 dependent? or one should put 0. Thanks

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How do you fill this out with 5 kids

thank you

I have been in tears the last two days. We checked our taxes a few days ago and found my wige set hers up wrong, and has not been paying amy federal this last year. We will owe close to 8k next tax season because of this, and I have been so stressed. This video is so straight forward. Next tax season is gonna suck, but 2025 and beyond will hopefully be much mpre accurate. Thank you so much!!!!

I want to make the change in 2025 because I’m about to have a baby. If we file married jointly, one income my spouses and 2 dependents would we have to pay at the end of year?

This video literally lifted so much stress off of my shoulders; we will still owe a bit, but at least moving forward, things will be better!

Very helpful- thank you, Katie!

Hi Katie, in your opinion. I am married with 4 children & my wife doesnt work. How many allowances should i claim?

What if i am a 1099 and I don't take a salary. everything is through the LLC. ?

If spouse #1 enters the "$321" for extra withholding, what should spouse#2 put on their W4? To me, it looks like you are deduction the total income on one W4?

Hi Katie, so the higher paid spouse inputs $321 with on 4C for option B (step 2), and what about the lower paid spouse? Will the lower paid spouse only simply select “married filing jointly” and input “0” on 4C and simply submit with the signature?

Thank you so much for sharing this. I will do my homework. I appreciate it.

Do I do this on both forms mine and my husbands ? or who claims the 2 job, the explanation was great but do we both add the second job on our forms or just the one with the highest income
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great video!! I want to make sure I'm understanding this right. The 8,340 is the total taxes needed for both people working or is it 8,340 for each person for a total of 16,680 due at the end of the year? Hopefully this makes sense 🙂

This was great! I took notes. Thank you so much!

Hey so he make more so i would only do the table chart for him on his form and i should just check the box and leave the rest blank, correct?

this may be a dumb question but does the other spouse also have to fill out the w4 in this exact same way? or does 1 person's w4 account for both spouses because of that extra withholding?

Thank you so much !

My employer has not taken any federal witholdings this year or last year..but I did find 2 paychecks from this year where they did deduct federal.
Why only 2 checks and not all of them???

Do I have to do step 2 if my husband and i both have a job or is it optional and can i just move on to step 5?

Great explenation on these confusing forms! The only question I have is my job pays weekly and my wifes is bi weekly. How do I fill that out when both are different?

I did this on my new job this month. Married filing joint - $4000 2 boys under 17 - $500 for my wife unemployed. Total $4500.
After receiving my first paycheck I noticed the Status was Single and Federal Income $0.00. Did I fill out my W4 incorrect or did accounting messed up on my check? Please need help.

Hi what if we are filing married filing joint with only 1 kid can we put 1000 each on line 3?

If I want my taxes at $0 and I’m claiming 2 children how does that affect my number on line 4c ?? Thank you

Thanks @KatieStOresCFPChFCEA I hope you will also have a video for the married filing jointly version for: husband is retired and receiving Social Security benefits and wife work one full time job and a part time (or per diem) job.

Thank you so very much.

This was extremely helpful. Probably the best example. Can you show how each spouse would fill out the new w4... higher paying spouse and lower paying spouse.
Thanks!

What if married filing jointly but one spouse gets paid bi-weekly and the other, weekly?

My question is do we need to fill this W-4 same for both jobs? I.e. both spouse have to fill same?

Thank you for this helpful video, we have 2 kids only one parent claim them correct? thanks again!!

Hello Katie,
If we get a salary increase after January 1st, say in April, should we still put 26 pay periods, or the Remaining pay periods for the year (i.e., April-December)?

Also, the spouse has to fill the W4 form in the same way correct? Which means, our spouse also needs to take his salary Plus mine into account and use the worksheet?

So helpful! Thank you for this video!