My husband is active duty, stationed in California. We are both Texas residents and Texas is his home of record.
I am a teacher and have worked for the same employer for 6 years. I filled out the paperwork for state tax exemption when I first got hired, never had an issue, no state taxes were taken.
Fast forward to February and I had to refill out a form for exemption, submitted it, didn’t think anymore of it. Until today when I looked at my pay stub and realized they have been withholding California state taxes for months. A total of $4500 has been withheld when it shouldn’t have.
I contacted my employer and am waiting on a response but want to be prepared if they don’t know how to get my money back, that’s a huge amount taken from me due to my employers failure to continue to mark me exempt even after refilling out the paperwork for exemption, per their request.
