IRS Form W-4V, Voluntary Withholding Request is a document used to ask your payer to withhold a federal income tax. It may be implemented if you receive one of the following government payments:
The latest version of the form - referred to as the IRS Voluntary Withholding Request - was released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on February 1, 2018, with all previous editions obsolete. A fillable W-4V Form is available for download below.
You can ask your payer to withhold federal taxes using the W-4V Form when you first apply for benefits or compensation. However, this is not obligatory, and you can submit the form later when you decide to start withholding. The withholding you choose on this form will remain in force until the payments stop or until you change it by completing a new form.
Instructions for the IRS Voluntary Withholding Request are as follows:
IRS W-4V Related Forms:
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