Congrats! You’ve just been hired. You found your career move on AgCareers.com! You think the hard part is over – and you realize that you have been handed a packet of “required forms” your new employer needs, like now! The good news, it only takes a few minutes to complete the forms, if you understand what they are for, I can help with that!
Here is a better understanding of the way employers utilize the personal information you give to them on these forms.
The W-4 form is a standard form for the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) uses to collect all necessary information for an employee working in the United States. Your employer reports the wages earned and the withholding allowances back to the IRS, each month – and at the end of the year, you receive your W-2 to file your income taxes. The W-4 form asks you to fill out your name, address, social security number, marital status, any additional amounts you would like withheld from you pay, and your signature.
The State form your employer may ask you to complete (each state varies for required documentations) usually asks the same information as the W-4 (federal form). The state forms are also utilized in the same capacity as the federal form. This is the way your employer reports your wages earned and determines the amount of taxes to withhold from your gross pay.
The I-9 form (U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Form) is used to verify your work status and citizenship. This is so that you can be documented as an eligible worker in the United States of America. All employers are required to have this on file for each employee hired after November 6, 1986 within their organization. This form asks you for personal information just as the federal and state forms, but also a form of ID. You must document your driver license, passport, work visa, permanent resident alien card, and other various forms of picture ID’s can be accepted.
These forms are simple, but are necessary for the employer to abide by the law – both federal and state. Take your time in reading the forms and fill them out correctly, it will save you and your employer time in fixing the incorrect information.
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