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Owing federal income tax at the end of the year. Here are some scenarios:
How to avoid owing taxes or a large tax bill:
Take more deductions. If you are claiming 0 or 1 go up to 5 or so. You'll have more taxes taken out that way you won't owe. Just a thought I know my sister claims quite a few and that way when tax time gets here she has money to go visit her son out of state.
@Bemmons55 Heed the advice of expert @evelynm ----The W-4 you fill out for your employer tells the employer how much to withhold for tax----the other post in this thread suggests "take more deductions"---which is incorrect. The newer version of the W-4 does not have you list exemptions or "deductions" on it---and if it did, claiming "more" would cause you to have less tax withheld, not more--and you would end up owing more at tax time. Use the W-4 calculator and make sure you are having enough tax withheld--you can even choose to have an extra amount withheld from each paycheck to make certain that you are having enough withheld.
W-4
https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/calculators/w4/
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/tax-withholding-estimator
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf
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