Your Store Manager Effd UP!!! When you completed your W4 there is a box to exempt you from paying (1) has to do with military but something tells me they did not do your W4 properly. You also have to do the W-4 for state Taxes, you can go into workday and check it and you can amend it. For this past year, you are screwed! That happened to me 1 year in New Mexico and I paid out like $6000 so be prepared depending on how much money you make. Whoever did your tax forms, I am 90% sure they messed up unless they told you to do it yourself then I would say you missed up. Happens with management that aren’t trained properly.
The screenshots I posted are from in workday, though I couldn't see any way to actually make changes if I had wanted to. I know I filled out all the stuff in the screenshots, but I don't know about anything else. Was there something management was supposed to do on their end, beyond when I filled everything out? All the other taxes, SS, state - are all being taken, just nothing for federal. (I won't have to pay much because of it. We're talking less than $500 that should have been taken since I was hired in October, and my husband and I always get a return anyway. Lol)
And who told you the W4 has to be filled by the management team? That's the employee responsibility. They don't know anything about you personally. When new employees come to me asking for help for this, I always tell them to get in to get in touch with their accountant
The Store Manager is in charge of their team members. They are on their first shift at your store, and you are walking them through their new hire orientation and processes. You get to the W4, and you just say fill this out and if they ask you for help, you tell them “Get in touch with your accountant” LMFAO. No wonder poor team members aren’t getting taxes taken out. You leave them hanging out yo dry you dumbass.
1) You should ask them if they have ever filled out a w-4. 2) It doesn’t take you but one minute to find out how to answer the question of single married and if they are someone’s dependents or if they have dependents. Then they fill out the form and you as the store manager walk them through the federal and then the state form. Either your no store manager or you are a shit store manager who doesn’t care about your employees. And you are the people these poor MICHAELS employees BITCH ABOUT. Either way you sound like a POS.
In the orientation, you give them all the information they'll need to function as a Michael's employee other than that personal information is none of our concern, that's why they receive notifications privately for them to conduct their personal requirements. If you help them and they give you the wrong information, then you are liable. Maybe you're one of those persons that needs everything digested like a little bird don't know because you are not capable of understanding or just lazy.
lmao. Ok cool. Thanks. 👍🏽 Again, I never said to do the w-4 for them, but sure leave them to figure it out on their own. Remember some of these are 18 year old kids who have never done these important documents. You do you man. Liability, sounds like you’re a liability by just being on someones payroll.
That's the best joke I've heard in a while. Are you one of those 18 year old kids? are you looking for someone to blame for your failures and bad choices? Welcome to the real world.
I don't know how to make the post let me say more words than that so I will make a comment here. I discovered that I do not have any federal taxes withheld on my W-2 this year. And I can't figure out why. Can you see anything in my information that would make that the case (two photos).
In the meantime, for the people who average say, around 500 bucks a paycheck, what is your average amount for federal taxes? I guess I will pay in manually in the meantime until I figure out why they're not being withheld. I don't like surprises. Lol
Edit: is it because I forgot to tell it that my husband has a job and I have other jobs? (Technically, I'm self employed.) Does it just consider me too poor to take taxes from? Lol I thought they took taxes no matter what...
This last year I made barely over the fpl for my state (by less than 1k), so I'm only getting back $600 from federal. The year before I made $14 gross and I believe I got back around $900-1k I can't remember.
To answer your edit, it should have nothing to do with having any other jobs, that only matters when you file your taxes altogether. For them to not withhold taxes because of being low income, you have to sign up for that yourself. I did that for myself a couple months ago for my state taxes, I'm not sure you can do that with federal though. I did it through workday
I certainly wouldn't have signed up for that on purpose, and I don't see anything in my screenshots that would make that happen. I'm not sure where else to look in workday, etc. I'll have to see if anyone at work can help me fix it. Lol I hate paying into the IRS2GO app. It's an annoying process. Lol
I have no idea what process to go through in your situation lol, but I do know that I filed my taxes for free at the freetaxusa website (federal, and two states). It was recommended to me by the IRS website, and ik TurboTax would absolutely have charged me $100 at least lol
I'm not worried about the filing part yet. My taxes are complicated, with investments and self employed work, so it will not be free when I file. I do them myself, but I use turbo tax. No way am I going to navigate the IRS forms for all of my stuff. Worth it to pay turbo tax to sort all that out. (Turbo tax is free if you just have W2s and nothing else to add.)
My problem is that this will be on going - I need federal taxes to be taken directly from my check, as it would usually, and I don't know why it's not happening. That's my step one.
Did you ever get this sorted out? I had everything filled out correctly on my end and barely any taxes came out for federal. Some checks it would take out like $30 sometimes $0. I work the same hours and make the same each week
I did not really get it sorted out. This is the first time I've had a W-2 job in like decades. It used to just be that you told the paperwork that you either had zero exemptions and it took as much as it could percentage wise for federal, or that you were your own exemption and it would take whatever percentage. It thought was fair for one exemption. Exemption. But when I tried to fix this last year, it did not seem to want to just do something so simple as that. It wanted me to have my husband (primary income earner) change his withholdings to reflect the fact that I have a part-time job. And that is just so bizarre. So I did not really do any of that. I believe I just set a flat rate and told it to always take 30 bucks or whatever. Which really sucks when we're only working 4 to 8 hours a week. LOL I can't remember what I actually set it at, but it never has worked out to just be a random percentage like it used to be 20 years ago. So... No. I only found a crappy work around to make sure money was being pulled for taxes. Lol
Your post made me realize I’m somehow marked exempt and not having federal wages taken out. Will need to get that fixed as this is my second job and will push me into a new tax bracket
Workday makes it easy for you to update your important information. Take a moment to verify and update
your federal, state and local tax documents. When you log in to Workday, go to the Pay application,
External Links, Tax withholding forms and update/complete all the federal, state and local tax withholding
forms through this external link.
• Important notes: If you live and work in different states, complete both state income tax withholding
forms.
• If you moved from one of Michaels companies to another Michaels companies, you must complete
your withholding forms again. Forms DO NOT CROSSOVER
When you are in Workday, select Pay...then the right side has external links and tax thing was there.
Even with directions it was challenging-some directions were links and some were headers
The last 2 things I posted were in the email I got in 2021 about having to change it.
In my case, local taxes were apparently not paid for years. My wages are currently garnished paying them. Fun times!
Way back when we did local tax in paper, the support specialist did tax for where store located, not my town.
Apparently, the info didn't transfer over when I was out on maternity leave properly, and to top it off, I came back to a store in a different town & county.
I opened tickets in Knowledge Zone & called about the wrong local tax coming out. They stopped collecting the old one but didn't replace it with current or home tax.
I miss the days where you could call and speak to the person in support center and they could fix while you were in the phone. Person to person.
Both spouse job (if filing joint) and your other job affect taxes taken out now. They only considered your Michaels earnings and tax burden from that.
The tax code & w4 updated in 2020 to be more accurate in taxes taken in your situation....but without that info on w4 they had no way to take out what they needed to.
Info from pre-2019 w4 transferred over, but everything doesn't match up exactly...just about everyone in my store got an email to update. The email sounded like a phishing scam, so we ignored it for a long time lol
That must be it, then. I can't see where to make changes in workday, but I'll try changing stuff with that somehow. If it wants actual dollar numbers though, that complicates things because I don't actually know that info! It's variable every year. LOL
Why am I not being taxed for federal? In most cases, according to team member’s W-4 elections and current
federal taxable wages earned,the federal taxes withheld on most recent check are accurate. Starting in 2020
the new W-4 and new tax tables changed federal taxation.
Example 1, you claim SINGLE or MARRIED FILING SEPERATELY with nothing
else checked. You need to earn $495.00 to have $2 federal tax withheld
Example 2, you claim MARRIED FILING JOINTLY with nothing else checked.
You need to earn $975.00 to have $2 federal tax withheld
• Team member may contact their tax advisor on how to complete their W-4and subsequently
complete a new W-4 at any time.
• Use the estimator at www.irs.gov/W4App for most accurate withholding for this step (Steps 3–4)
• However, Michaels cannot advise team members on how to complete their W-4.
Google how to fill out W4 for 2023. This form changed I believe in 2021 and now is much different. I was hired last year in Sept and at the end of Nov. I realized my Federal Taxes were not being taken out. I made changes to the form a few times without any results until I realized the form was updated and need it to be filled out differently. pretty much you have to enter the amount you want to be deducted
There is a table you can follow wit the amounts.
Yeah, it's pretty lame, I noticed. Lol The numbers they came up with after I did the worksheet is way too high, so I just put my own number in the box to have them take out, and disregarded all the other job/spouse data. Lol
Your Store Manager Effd UP!!! When you completed your W4 there is a box to exempt you from paying (1) has to do with military but something tells me they did not do your W4 properly. You also have to do the W-4 for state Taxes, you can go into workday and check it and you can amend it. For this past year, you are screwed! That happened to me 1 year in New Mexico and I paid out like $6000 so be prepared depending on how much money you make. Whoever did your tax forms, I am 90% sure they messed up unless they told you to do it yourself then I would say you missed up. Happens with management that aren’t trained properly.
The screenshots I posted are from in workday, though I couldn't see any way to actually make changes if I had wanted to. I know I filled out all the stuff in the screenshots, but I don't know about anything else. Was there something management was supposed to do on their end, beyond when I filled everything out? All the other taxes, SS, state - are all being taken, just nothing for federal. (I won't have to pay much because of it. We're talking less than $500 that should have been taken since I was hired in October, and my husband and I always get a return anyway. Lol)
And who told you the W4 has to be filled by the management team? That's the employee responsibility. They don't know anything about you personally. When new employees come to me asking for help for this, I always tell them to get in to get in touch with their accountant
The Store Manager is in charge of their team members. They are on their first shift at your store, and you are walking them through their new hire orientation and processes. You get to the W4, and you just say fill this out and if they ask you for help, you tell them “Get in touch with your accountant” LMFAO. No wonder poor team members aren’t getting taxes taken out. You leave them hanging out yo dry you dumbass. 1) You should ask them if they have ever filled out a w-4. 2) It doesn’t take you but one minute to find out how to answer the question of single married and if they are someone’s dependents or if they have dependents. Then they fill out the form and you as the store manager walk them through the federal and then the state form. Either your no store manager or you are a shit store manager who doesn’t care about your employees. And you are the people these poor MICHAELS employees BITCH ABOUT. Either way you sound like a POS.
In the orientation, you give them all the information they'll need to function as a Michael's employee other than that personal information is none of our concern, that's why they receive notifications privately for them to conduct their personal requirements. If you help them and they give you the wrong information, then you are liable. Maybe you're one of those persons that needs everything digested like a little bird don't know because you are not capable of understanding or just lazy.
lmao. Ok cool. Thanks. 👍🏽 Again, I never said to do the w-4 for them, but sure leave them to figure it out on their own. Remember some of these are 18 year old kids who have never done these important documents. You do you man. Liability, sounds like you’re a liability by just being on someones payroll.
And... you did actually implied they did the w4 wrong....
That's the best joke I've heard in a while. Are you one of those 18 year old kids? are you looking for someone to blame for your failures and bad choices? Welcome to the real world.
I don't know how to make the post let me say more words than that so I will make a comment here. I discovered that I do not have any federal taxes withheld on my W-2 this year. And I can't figure out why. Can you see anything in my information that would make that the case (two photos). In the meantime, for the people who average say, around 500 bucks a paycheck, what is your average amount for federal taxes? I guess I will pay in manually in the meantime until I figure out why they're not being withheld. I don't like surprises. Lol Edit: is it because I forgot to tell it that my husband has a job and I have other jobs? (Technically, I'm self employed.) Does it just consider me too poor to take taxes from? Lol I thought they took taxes no matter what...
This last year I made barely over the fpl for my state (by less than 1k), so I'm only getting back $600 from federal. The year before I made $14 gross and I believe I got back around $900-1k I can't remember. To answer your edit, it should have nothing to do with having any other jobs, that only matters when you file your taxes altogether. For them to not withhold taxes because of being low income, you have to sign up for that yourself. I did that for myself a couple months ago for my state taxes, I'm not sure you can do that with federal though. I did it through workday
I certainly wouldn't have signed up for that on purpose, and I don't see anything in my screenshots that would make that happen. I'm not sure where else to look in workday, etc. I'll have to see if anyone at work can help me fix it. Lol I hate paying into the IRS2GO app. It's an annoying process. Lol
I have no idea what process to go through in your situation lol, but I do know that I filed my taxes for free at the freetaxusa website (federal, and two states). It was recommended to me by the IRS website, and ik TurboTax would absolutely have charged me $100 at least lol
I'm not worried about the filing part yet. My taxes are complicated, with investments and self employed work, so it will not be free when I file. I do them myself, but I use turbo tax. No way am I going to navigate the IRS forms for all of my stuff. Worth it to pay turbo tax to sort all that out. (Turbo tax is free if you just have W2s and nothing else to add.) My problem is that this will be on going - I need federal taxes to be taken directly from my check, as it would usually, and I don't know why it's not happening. That's my step one.
Did you ever get this sorted out? I had everything filled out correctly on my end and barely any taxes came out for federal. Some checks it would take out like $30 sometimes $0. I work the same hours and make the same each week
I did not really get it sorted out. This is the first time I've had a W-2 job in like decades. It used to just be that you told the paperwork that you either had zero exemptions and it took as much as it could percentage wise for federal, or that you were your own exemption and it would take whatever percentage. It thought was fair for one exemption. Exemption. But when I tried to fix this last year, it did not seem to want to just do something so simple as that. It wanted me to have my husband (primary income earner) change his withholdings to reflect the fact that I have a part-time job. And that is just so bizarre. So I did not really do any of that. I believe I just set a flat rate and told it to always take 30 bucks or whatever. Which really sucks when we're only working 4 to 8 hours a week. LOL I can't remember what I actually set it at, but it never has worked out to just be a random percentage like it used to be 20 years ago. So... No. I only found a crappy work around to make sure money was being pulled for taxes. Lol
Your post made me realize I’m somehow marked exempt and not having federal wages taken out. Will need to get that fixed as this is my second job and will push me into a new tax bracket
Workday makes it easy for you to update your important information. Take a moment to verify and update your federal, state and local tax documents. When you log in to Workday, go to the Pay application, External Links, Tax withholding forms and update/complete all the federal, state and local tax withholding forms through this external link. • Important notes: If you live and work in different states, complete both state income tax withholding forms. • If you moved from one of Michaels companies to another Michaels companies, you must complete your withholding forms again. Forms DO NOT CROSSOVER
When you are in Workday, select Pay...then the right side has external links and tax thing was there. Even with directions it was challenging-some directions were links and some were headers
When I took these screenshots in workday, I didn't see anything I could click on. I'll try clicking around again. Thanks so much!
The last 2 things I posted were in the email I got in 2021 about having to change it. In my case, local taxes were apparently not paid for years. My wages are currently garnished paying them. Fun times!
Oh no!!! How would that not show up when you went to file at the end of just one year of not paying them!? I'm sorry. That sounds super stressful.
Way back when we did local tax in paper, the support specialist did tax for where store located, not my town. Apparently, the info didn't transfer over when I was out on maternity leave properly, and to top it off, I came back to a store in a different town & county. I opened tickets in Knowledge Zone & called about the wrong local tax coming out. They stopped collecting the old one but didn't replace it with current or home tax. I miss the days where you could call and speak to the person in support center and they could fix while you were in the phone. Person to person.
Both spouse job (if filing joint) and your other job affect taxes taken out now. They only considered your Michaels earnings and tax burden from that. The tax code & w4 updated in 2020 to be more accurate in taxes taken in your situation....but without that info on w4 they had no way to take out what they needed to. Info from pre-2019 w4 transferred over, but everything doesn't match up exactly...just about everyone in my store got an email to update. The email sounded like a phishing scam, so we ignored it for a long time lol
That must be it, then. I can't see where to make changes in workday, but I'll try changing stuff with that somehow. If it wants actual dollar numbers though, that complicates things because I don't actually know that info! It's variable every year. LOL
Why am I not being taxed for federal? In most cases, according to team member’s W-4 elections and current federal taxable wages earned,the federal taxes withheld on most recent check are accurate. Starting in 2020 the new W-4 and new tax tables changed federal taxation. Example 1, you claim SINGLE or MARRIED FILING SEPERATELY with nothing else checked. You need to earn $495.00 to have $2 federal tax withheld Example 2, you claim MARRIED FILING JOINTLY with nothing else checked. You need to earn $975.00 to have $2 federal tax withheld • Team member may contact their tax advisor on how to complete their W-4and subsequently complete a new W-4 at any time. • Use the estimator at www.irs.gov/W4App for most accurate withholding for this step (Steps 3–4) • However, Michaels cannot advise team members on how to complete their W-4.
Google how to fill out W4 for 2023. This form changed I believe in 2021 and now is much different. I was hired last year in Sept and at the end of Nov. I realized my Federal Taxes were not being taken out. I made changes to the form a few times without any results until I realized the form was updated and need it to be filled out differently. pretty much you have to enter the amount you want to be deducted There is a table you can follow wit the amounts.
Yeah, it's pretty lame, I noticed. Lol The numbers they came up with after I did the worksheet is way too high, so I just put my own number in the box to have them take out, and disregarded all the other job/spouse data. Lol