<prompt> Human: Last year my wife and I made 141k gross and both entered in married, 0 and kept that for the entire year.Now, for some reason neither of our employers withheld enough and for tax year 2016 and we owe 3k between fed and state!Now to avoid this in the future, I want to ensure that we pay enough taxes up front to make sure this doesnt happen. My wife got a new job that bumped up our total income to around 180k, but now were both putting an extra 125 per paycheck every 2 weeks towards fed and an extra 25 towards state so we never get into this situation again.Has anybody else been in this position? Do you have any recommendations on what to do outside of just giving extra money per paycheck to both fed and state? I thought taking 0 exemptions would be enough, but apparently its not. I tried using the IRS withholding calculator but it ended up being too complicated and confused me. As such, I thought I would pose the question to PF to see if there is an easier solution.Help!Assistant: I am Married Filing at the Single Rate, zero exemptions, and 400month extra taken out. I got back within 300 of what I owed the state.Welcome to the 1.PS. If you owed 3000, you need to put an extra 250month if you want to be even at the end of the year.Human: See I have no idea how this is possible. I posted something similar in PF a few years ago. I use turbotax for this usually but am questioning whether or not I should splurge another 150 to get an accountant so they can explain it to me. Do you think its worth it?  <response>: See I have no idea how this is possible.I am Married Filing at the Single Rate is probably the key part. 