You can absolutely zero out their federal and state withholding so they have a higher net, but you cannot do that with Medicare, SS and any other deductions they may have coming out.

I imagine everyone would want this. Tell them to pound sand.

You can do it for Federal income tax but not FICA. Just get them to submit a signed W4 saying “exempt” or whatever to CYA. Verify with whoever handles your payroll

I’d ask payroll processor for guidance.

They will probably put kabosh on it or make it difficult. Or expensive to change.

Then go from there. Most likely it’s not an easy fix.

My guess is they need extra $$. Is there a way for them to get extra hours?

“NoBoDy WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe”. -This guy, when all of his employees leave because he cannot do something they are legally entitled to do by filling out the proper documentation.

Do whatever they want with taxes, just require them to fill out and sign a new W4 to make the change. They might know exactly what they’re doing, they might be about to FAAFO. Either way, that’s between them and the IRS.

Yes. They just need to change their W-4. However, it won’t remove all the taxes…there will still be some base level required taxes which I don’t recall what those are exactly.

Request a Negative value for additional witholding on your W4 to your employer… that is all they need to stay out of the legal parts.

Have them Redo the w4 themselves and update your software for it. Payroll tax violations are nothing to screw around with. I was late for a few months and had an actual agent show up and set up a payment plan and that was for being less than A year in arrears. They really fuck u over on penalties too

1. No, take out taxes as normal and do not allow an adjusted W-4 unless employee has a specific life event that would necessitate such a move (discovered wrong # of exemptions, got married, had kids/adopted, got divorced, other sort of changed filing status, or maybe some of those random farming and clergy items that us regular folk never get to do)
2. If it’s a good, reliable employee that is on hard times or short on funds for a specific thing, you could always front a portion of their next paycheck by adding it to the current paycheck (including paying the appropriate amount of taxes) and then adjust down the next paycheck.
3. Give them an early Christmas bonus (and be sure to take out the proper amount of tax, lol)

1099 will be your provider like a vendor, and he is making things easier on you, as you dont have to discount taxes or other stuff for him.

No. Either he’s a W2 employee or contractor. You cannot be both.

What a pain in the neck to deal with. Tell him (and all employees) there is a $50 administrative fee to update W4’s mid-year, unless they have a bona-fide change in life status (marriage, divorce, child, etc.)

Are the taxes not calculated based on their W4?

If they really want that, get a new W4 to keep yourself out of trouble.

Pretty sure it’s illegal for an employer to not withhold from a full time w2 employee.

They’d have to file a new w4 and then back again next year.