Federal Withholding Doubling

Forum|Forum|4 months ago
April 22, 2026
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I have one employee with a bad file QB is almost doubling his federal withholding, firstly yes I checked everything over and over and so did quickbooks customer service, three hours wasted even with an 2nd tier tech expect, they could not figure it out , so they told me to manual figure withholding weekly from IRS publication, it's not a catch up situation , there is no extra withholding, everything has been checked by multiple experts

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BigRedConsulting

Level 15

It sounds like a bug I remember from long ago where the federal withholding item was sometimes included 2x on paychecks - doubling up the tax.

Could that be the case here? If you look at a transaction detail report for the paycheck, is the federal withholding item included twice?

The Rebuild function is known to fix that case for future paychecks. If you Rebuild the company (start at File | Utilities | Rebuild...) does that fix it for new paychecks?

One other thing you didn't mention is the pay period. If it is not correct, then withholding won't be either. For example, if you pay every other week, but the employee is set up for a weekly schedule, the tax will almost double.

Lindalu12808Author

It's only one employee; he stopped working Sept 2025 came back a month ago and the first second and third paycheck double the federal withholding , QB expert could not help me, there is no catchup , we checked his file online together QB expert and I . I've been in payroll for 38 years the only explanation is a glitch in QB system but The expert just wanted me to hang up and give up and use the Federal Online Guidelines for deductions , very unprofessional

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