@xmasbaby0 wrote:
"we get W2, with no Federal tax withheld, State, Medicare, and Social Security are withheld.."
If I am interpreting your post correctly, are you saying that the W-2 from your church has nothing in box 2 for federal tax withheld, but it does have amounts for box 4 Social Security tax withheld, box 6 Medicare tax withheld, and box 17, State income tax ? The church just did not withhold any federal tax?
If that is the case, then it could just be that you did not earn enough from the job with the church for them to withhold federal tax.
If you have other income, the income from the church job is still taxable income and the amount of income you received during the year will be reconciled with your tax liability when your other income and tax withheld from the other income sources are entered.
Good point. Religious wages would apply to clergy, and if done right by the church, the wages are in box 1, and boxes 2-6 are blank. If you have wages in box 1 and social security and medicare wages and tax in boxes 3-6, then you are a regular employee and you just didn't have federal tax withheld. That would be due to a combination of your income and how you filled out your W-4, and could be entirely correct.
In either case, these are not religious wages for the checkbox under special circumstances.
