I'm hoping I can get some help here. Please don't just tell me to quit my job.
I work at a gym and noticed that on my pay stubs, there is no Federal Tax Income withheld. It's at 0 where the other categories have an amount taken out. I've already done my taxes, can't do much there.
I contacted management and they forwarded me to Payroll. So after a bit of back-and-forth email with the person in charge of Payroll. She called me in the middle of work after I had sent an email with 2 questions and asked if they could be answered in writing .
Basically, this is what she told me:
– There was a law that businesses would not have to take out Federal Taxes if the employee's paycheck was less than $500 and *I* should have known about it
– It was not up to her to tell me that this was in effect because that would be “giving me tax advice” which she was not allowed to do.
– She asked me who my “tax advisor” was and I was like I work the front desk, how can I afford a tax advisor? She was like turbo tax and hr block are tax advisors. WTF?
– She told me that she sends out an email every year to have us check our paystubs if anything was wrong every Nov and Dec so it was up to me to make sure if stuff was off. (Her email was basic and was mostly to check if our info was right ie name, address, etc)
– If I wanted my taxes taken out then *I* should have stated that when I got hired on my w4. WTF?
There's probably more but I'm too tired here.
I dunno if this was everything but it felt very gaslightly and she was very annoyed at me.
Not at all “Hey, let me help you”.
What do I do? Obviously, I can't do anything to my paperwork now besides changing my W4 and that will affect next year. Is she right that there is a law that businesses don't have to take federal tax income withheld?