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What is the name of your state? Kentucky
My employer is a wholesale company. It is a LLC. The owner/president is a C.P.A. He does his own payroll and this year he messed up! Our W2's were a total mess. Some of the employees didn't even have state wages listed, some had no witheld taxes in some boxes, and numerous women had taxes witheld at a rate of almost 50% less than in previous years.
It came to our attention that he upgraded his software after the new tax codes came out. He failed to enter certain individual changes and that caused the system to default all of the married women to the married rate deduction. Our W4 forms show us to be designating deduction at married but witholding at the higher single rate. This was brought to his attention earlier in the year by some employees. His answer was that due to the new tax codes the witholding rates were lower. We figured that a C.P.A. must know what he was talking about. He did not change the software designations and now some of us are finding that we
are going to have to pay in on both federal and state taxes.
Aren't employers required by law to deduct payroll taxes at rates designated on an employee's W4 form? Since he' a C.P. A.,
isn't there a code of ethics he is governed by? His attitude is that the amounts he witheld is legal. To the I.R.S. that may be true.
However, what is the point of the government requiring W4 forms
if the employer is not going to follow the designations on the form?
Is there any action that can be taken against my employer?
My employer is a wholesale company. It is a LLC. The owner/president is a C.P.A. He does his own payroll and this year he messed up! Our W2's were a total mess. Some of the employees didn't even have state wages listed, some had no witheld taxes in some boxes, and numerous women had taxes witheld at a rate of almost 50% less than in previous years.
It came to our attention that he upgraded his software after the new tax codes came out. He failed to enter certain individual changes and that caused the system to default all of the married women to the married rate deduction. Our W4 forms show us to be designating deduction at married but witholding at the higher single rate. This was brought to his attention earlier in the year by some employees. His answer was that due to the new tax codes the witholding rates were lower. We figured that a C.P.A. must know what he was talking about. He did not change the software designations and now some of us are finding that we
are going to have to pay in on both federal and state taxes.
Aren't employers required by law to deduct payroll taxes at rates designated on an employee's W4 form? Since he' a C.P. A.,
isn't there a code of ethics he is governed by? His attitude is that the amounts he witheld is legal. To the I.R.S. that may be true.
However, what is the point of the government requiring W4 forms
if the employer is not going to follow the designations on the form?
Is there any action that can be taken against my employer?
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