On Mar 19, 11:40 pm, Rich Carreiro <rlc-n...[at]rlcarr.com> wrote:
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I think you nailed it, that's exactly what happened.

Thanks!

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way333[at]gmail.com writes:

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In the payperiod when your MA withholding changed (or the one before),
did the total of your year-to-date SS and Medicare withholdings hit
$2000?

MA allows a deduction for up to $2000 of the employee share of
payroll taxes and the MA withholding rules instruct employers
to withhold slightly lower until the payroll tax withholdings
hit $2000.

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I recently changed my Federal withholding from married/0 exemptions/
$150 extra per paycheck to married/4 exemptions/$0 extra withhold.

And lo and behold, my MA withholding went up by almost $20.

Nothing else changed - my gross pay, my deductions, pre-tax stuff, all
of these amounts are the same. The only thing different between the
two checks is that my Federal withholding went down (as I desired) and
MA went up.

Can anyone explain why?

My company's payroll department could only tell me that "lower Federal
withholding causes higher state withholding", which makes no sense
because there is nothing about MA income tax that is dependent in any
way on how much you pay in Federal income tax (as far as I know).

Thanks!

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