Good Morning @Critter-3 !
Thank you for your response. Yes,I filled out a W4 and both fed and state taxes are being withheld. It's been 10 years since I've been a company employee due to being freelance, so whether or not it was the best idea, I filled it out at zero dependents. This was to be safe and cover us next year because it put us in a higher tax bracket.
I'm a salaried W2 employee and each paycheck there's 11% coming out for federal, 6% for SS, 1% for MC, 5% for CA state income, and .01% for CA state disability insurance.
I see opposing thoughts and ideas on here about this kind of thing. I'll never go there for work and always log in remote. It's a marketing, motion graphics, web design, etc. position. People on here have mentioned some form to get the money back, it seems?
If I don't need to file CA, then it makes sense to do as always, and file jointly under self-employed once more since most of my year was freelance. But if I have to file CA, should I do that separate?
I've grown accustomed to 20 years of no state taxes in FL 🙂
I'm decent at math, but tax math... ugh!
I hope this help. Again, I appreciate your assistance.
scriv.
