Yup. Chessic screwed up in the OP. He admitted later what really happened, but I’m not seeing that he’s learned a lesson about shooting from the hip, or about kneejerk blaming the gummint for everything.
I kinda stepped out of this conversation, but I mentioned earlier that I would try manually adjusting the taxes (in Quickbooks) to see what would happen. As soon as I even touched any employer or employee numbers I had to push through this giant dialogue box.
Now, I’ve never done this before so I don’t know if the “Don’t Tell Me Again” button is forever (I assume it is) or just for this check or this employee etc.
Also of note, adjusting (by hand) any of those taxes, didn’t automatically adjust the matching one on the other side. They shouldn’t, since they’re individually percentage based, I’m just putting it out there.
I seem to remember this as well, way way way back in the Dark Ages of the 20[sup]th[/sup] Century before we had things like “EFTPS”, “EFI” or Millennials. Ah, those were the good ol’ days, one had a damn good reason to go anti-tax every three months. Kids today don’t know what it’s like to struggle and scrape to get taxes in on time. Spoiled I say, spoiled …
I haven’t calculated withholding for myself or anyone else recently, but I do recall the times I got paid a small salary, but in a large lump sum, the withholding was calculated as if the large lump sum was a weekly number. That is, a quarterly income was used as if it was a weekly income, inflating the apparent yearly number. This could have been an employer’s mistake or a deliberate plan, I don’t remember, but it looked funny on the pay stub.
When my mother got paid as a teacher, the 3 summer months were paid as one, and her withholding ballooned. Of course, she got it back later.
Wait until they find out he didn’t pay FIT. They are so gonna get that last 28%.
Where’s the “like” button?
I bet its right next to the “I know, right?” button.
You know how much a kid costs? Whatever you make plus a dollar.
You guys are a strange bunch. So concentrated on whose fault it is that you fail to even comment on the fact that I’m missing a lot of money. If I were hit by a car, you’d all stand over my crumpled body, half arguing over whether the pickup truck can rightly be called a car, the other half telling me it probably had the right of way. At least one of you’d suggest I was never actually hit at all and probably just read something bad about diesel emissions.
Did you forget that you concentrated on whose fault it was in the OP? Here, let me remind you:
You were wrong, of course, but don’t let that stop you from pretending to be smarter than everyone else. Just reading your OP, it sure doesn’t seem like you understood that you were missing a lot of money - seems like you just figured you’d get it back with your tax return. The same posters who pointed out that it was probably payroll’s fault are the also the ones who pointed out that you probably weren’t going to get a lot of that back. You ought to be thanking them instead of… whatever the hell you were doing in that last post.
Maybe Chessic’s old buddy Jamal is in payroll.
Look you birdbrained hypocrite. I made a mistake, and he did lie about it. It was not the Governments fault.
There are multiple large errors and rather difficult to do.
Exactly.
So what did your employer say when you brought this error to their attention? Are they going to fix it?
This is a pretty idiotic response. Who is to blame is rather basic to how you go about correcting the fact that you are out a lot of money. You need to talk to your payroll department rather than the government, who you originally blamed.
They said they don’t know how it happened but they’ll fix it next check. I doubt we’ll ever get a specific answer as to how and why this all happened.
Can we get a specific answer as to how your job only pays $25/day? At the federal minimum wage, that’s only about 3 1/2 hours of work. 
So it’s going to be fixed by the party who was responsible for the mistake - YOUR EMPLOYER. That’s good. I hope in some small way, the responses in this thread helped you identify the solution to the problem (ie contact your EMPLOYER to fix it)
Will you now acknowledge now that your initial rant against “the government” was misplaced?
I’m pretty sure his figures were only an example, and not indicative of the actual pay he received.
He made a mistake in attributing it to the government. If that was a lie, then your own “mistake” was a lie. If making a mistake means you’ve told a lie, then almost every post you’ve made on the board has been a lie.
Well, that’s one explanation.