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From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder)
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: Re: Things IRS Won't Tell You #2
Message-ID: <175@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 15:18:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 15:18:29 1984
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA
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> The IRS, in a near-panic due to the increasing number of exempt W-4's being
> filed, now ILLEGALLY interferes with the rights of employees who do not
> wish to "voluntarily" asess themselves. Despite the clear intent and wording
> of section 3402(n), employers are being "directed" to ignore the employee's
> SWORN W-4 statement and withhold the maximum amount! In addition, they also
> attempt to levy fines for "false" W-4 forms, once again despite the clear
> provisions of the laws.
> 
     My wife had this sort of problem.  She filed 'exempt'.  The IRS wrote
a letter to her employer (Pacific Northwest Bell) saying her W-4 was wrong
(implicitly calling my wife a liar).  PNB proceeded to withhold on the
basis of single, with no extra allowances.  I also had filed 'exempt', but
if the the IRS ever contacted my employer (the Boeing Company), I never
heard about it.  By the way, we paid a large amount of taxes for 1983, and
expect to do so for 1984.  Last year, it was by check a few weeks before
filing our return.

Dani Eder / ssc-vax!eder / Boeing Aerospace Company / (206)773-4545