I am SINGLE but In My W-2 Form marital status as Married?

Question

I am SINGLE but In My W-2 Form shows as Married?
please suggest me how can i submit for tax returns

from october 2008 i am working in US, Unfortunately mistake happend in W-4 form and i recieved W-2 with marital status as Married

Can i submit my tax returns as SINGLE ?

I have Nill knowledge on this kind of issuess

Please suggest me

Answer 1

File your 1040 with the correct information. The filling status on your W-2 is just a reference of how your employer computed your withholding on your paychecks.



This may cause you to owe money because married people have lower tax brackets and bigger deductions, so your employer may not have withheld enough. This doesn't cause any problems, it just means your paychecks were bigger than they should have been all year, and you would now have to repay the difference. Fill out the forms to find out.



When you get a chance, submit a new W-4 form to your employer and correct the mistake.

Answer 2

I remember when I did mine the questions were idiotic. It said if you are married or if you are single put a 1. If you have children or you have zero children put a 1. Something unavoidable like that. I realized I should have put zero even though it says to put a one. My old work never listened to me so I told them to change it for a good 4 to 6 months until I finally had it changed to zero by filling out a new form. All their forms were outdated too. I believe it more or less dictates how much money they take from you each week. A zero would be the most but yields the higher tax return when you do your taxes but a higher number might take less each week but you will probably get back less or might even have to pay. The reason why I don't think it's that big of a deal is that I worked about may to october with a 2 and then changed it to a zero. There did not seem to be any mishaps and I didn't even notice a change in my weekly pay. Go to your work and change it and when you file just file as being single which would be the truth and if anything happens just play dumb.

Answer 3

Just inform your employer that you need to adjust your W-4 form.



As long as you check the correct (single) filing status when you actually submit your tax return, the IRS isn't going to mind what it says on your W-2. The information you provide on your W-4 is just meant to serve as a guideline so your employer knows how much tax to withhold from each paycheck.



You won't be in any kind of trouble for this.

Answer 4

sure you can people do get divorced in this world and that is how they do it.