If your tax witheld is larger than the tax due, you receive a refund
When your tax liability, (the amount owed), is more than your tax withheld, (the amount paid to IRS), it means you owe the IRS money. Instead of receiving a refund, you will have to pay.
If your tax witheld is larger than the tax due, you receive a refund
Married tax credit and children's tax credits can cause a refund to be larger than what was withheld.
Absolutely...more than ever in fact! The withholding is only done as an estimate of the tax due...and generally is more than enough to protect the Gov't from the actual tax that will be determined by the filing of the return. Hence, you need to include the distribution and reflect the credit for the amount of tax already paid (the withheld amount) and will likely get a refund.
You seem really lost. Do you mean tax REFUND? If that's what you're looking for you need to SUBTRACT the tax you owe from the taxes you have had withheld over the calendar year. Of course, if the tax you owe is larger than the taxes you have had withheld, you need to send more money to the IRS and maybe even pay a penalty charge.
Income tax withheld from each paycheck
A form W-2 is the information form that you get from any employers that you had during a calendar year. You will receive one from each job you had during the year. The form shows your gross income as well as all taxes that were withheld from your income for social security tax, medicare tax, federal income tax, and any state and local income tax. The amount of income taxes withheld will be a credit against your income tax computed on your tax returns and you may get a refund if you had more withheld than you owed or you may owe additional taxes if you did not have enough withheld to cover the amount of your total tax due.
Is required and used as a credit or prepayment of the tax due when you file...if you owe less it is refunded.
You do NOT have any amount that is withheld from your net take home paycheck after it is issued to you. The amount that is withheld is calculated on your gross earnings for the pay period and is a advance payment of your possible future income tax liability. After your income tax return is completed correctly and IF the amount that is withheld is more than your federal or state income liability then you will receive a refund of the over withheld amount.
You cannot deduct withheld federal taxes on your federal income tax return. There are some states that allow the deduction of withheld federal taxes on the state income tax return.
Standard deduction can be about 20%. The taxpayer can opt to have more than the minimum tax deducted.
There is income taxes due on winnings at a casino. The only way you could get a refund on such winnings is that taxes are withheld from your winnings that exceeded your tax liability.
By having some income withheld from your worldwide income and then filing an income tax return to claim a refund of some of the amount that may have been over withheld. More than your federal income tax liability on all of your gross worldwide income.