# Form W-4

> Form W-4 — The form a new employee gives the employer to set federal income tax withholding — filing status, the two-jobs checkbox, credits, other income, deductions and extra withholding. Kept by the employer, not sent to the IRS unless it asks. A state with an income tax may use its own certificate, such as California's DE 4.

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**What is form w-4?** In accounting, form W-4 means the form a new employee gives the employer to set federal income tax withholding — filing status, the two-jobs checkbox, credits, other income, deductions and extra withholding. Kept by the employer, not sent to the IRS unless it asks. A state with an income tax may use its own certificate, such as California's DE 4.

## Also known as

- Employee's Withholding Certificate

## Words this system refuses for it

- W-9 (a payee's TIN certificate)
- W-2 (the year-end statement)

- **Category:** Payroll
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)
- **Related:** federal-income-tax-withholding