• Form W-4 2025

  • Employee’s Withholding Certificate

  • Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service

    Complete Form W-4 so that your employer can withhold the correct federal income tax from your pay. Give Form W-4 to your employer. Your withholding is subject to review by the IRS.

  • Step 1:

  • Information

  • Complete Steps 2–4 ONLY if they apply to you; otherwise, skip to Step 5. See page 2 for more information on each step, who can claim exemption from withholding, when to use the estimator at www.irs.gov/W4App, and privacy.

  • Step 2: Multiple Jobs or Spouse Works

  • TIP: To be accurate, submit a 2021 Form W-4 for all other jobs. If you (or your spouse) have self-employment income, including as an independent contractor, use the estimator.

    Complete Steps 3–4(b) on Form W-4 for only ONE of these jobs. Leave those steps blank for the other jobs. (Your withholding will be most accurate if you complete Steps 3–4(b) on the Form W-4 for the highest paying job

  • Step 3: Claim Dependants

  • If your total income will be $200,000 or less ($400,000 or less if married filing jointly):

  • Step 4 (optional)

    Other Adjustments
  • Step 5:

  • Under penalties of perjury, I declare that this certificate, to the best of my knowledge and belief, is true, correct, and complete.

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  • For the latest information about developments related to Form W-4, such as legislation enacted after it was published, go to www.irs.gov/FormW4.

  • Step 2(b)—Multiple Jobs Worksheet (Keep for your records

    If you choose the option in Step 2(b) on Form W-4, complete this worksheet (which calculates the total extra tax for all jobs) on only ONE Form W-4. Withholding will be most accurate if you complete the worksheet and enter the result on the Form W-4 for the highest paying job.

    Note: If more than one job has annual wages of more than $120,000 or there are more than three jobs, see Pub. 505 for additional tables; or, you can use the online withholding estimator at www.irs.gov/W4App.

     

  • Three jobs. If you and/or your spouse have three jobs at the same time, complete lines 2a, 2b, and 2c below. Otherwise, skip to line 3.

     

  • Step 4(b)—Deductions Worksheet (Keep for your records)

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  • Should be Empty: