BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Whenever you start a new job there’s always a stack of paperwork to fill out. Buried in there is something called a W-4 form or an Employee’s Withholding Certificate.

Use our free W-4 calculator to estimate how much to withhold from each paycheck and make the form work for you. Many or all of the products featured here are from our partners who compensate us. This ...

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When starting a new job, employees must fill our Internal Revenue Service Form W-4, instructing their employers how to set up their payroll deductions. An employer cannot begin running an employee's ...

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