My husband and I were married at the end of 2021. We plan to file married/filing jointly. Our taxes are fairly simple. Should we change our withholdings on our W-4s for the upcoming tax year? If so, how do we decide who withholds what?
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It is a good practice to review your W-4 each year anyway, especially with a life change like this - congratulations!. The 2022 W-4 form has specific instructions to help with calculating your withholdings.
You can find a blank form for each of you to complete and turn in to your employers here Form W-4.
Under Step 1 (c) you'll want to mark Married filing jointly then you will want to complete Step 2 utilizing pages 3 and 4 to determine if you need any additional amounts withheld.
Thank you so much, Alicia. 🙂
If you do nothing, you will likely have more tax taken out than needed and get a larger refund, which is another way of saying you are giving an interest-free loan to the government.
The IRS also has a calculator to help with your W-4 but it is temporarily out of service.
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/tax-withholding-estimator
If filing new W-4s, be sure to review all 4 pages of worksheets and instructions, not just page 1 with your signature that you give to your employer. And you will want to do the calculations once, but submit new forms to both jobs based on those calculations.
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