Payroll Association Calls for Changes to Form W-4

The draft instructions to employers for calculating employee withholding on the draft 2019 FormW-4, Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate, need more details on where to find information on prior-year W-4s, the American Payroll Association said July 3 in a letter to the Internal Revenue Service.

In the instructions, the IRS advised employers to make their prior-year W-4 data conform to the new withholding method for 2019.

The APA letter had this recommendation:

“Consider more detail on where to find the information on prior year Forms W-4. For example, in the second sentence, ‘Employers can do this by keeping the ...