<prompt> Human: Hey all! I recently married and my husband just got a new job. We both need to update our w4 but Im so confused about how the taxing process works now that we are married. A bit about us: weve had a joint checkingsavings account for 6 years, weve had a dependent for 5 years, his w2 from last year is 21,000 and mine is 18,000- I expect these numbers to be slightly higher for 2018 as he got a raise and I was able to work full time after May due to graduating college. Im so lost on how the w4 and filing process will work for us now that we are married. Any advice of helpful links would be greatly appreciated.  <response>: If you look at most recent pay stubs you might have to access them online, you should find line that tells you how much federal tax you have paid in to date. See what this is for you and for husband.You may also be able to predict overall income based on year to date gross and then count what remaining paychecks will add through Dec 31.Armed with pay stub info you could use the and enter your figures for your situation. It may turn out that you two have already paid in more than your tax, in which case the suggestion for W-4 will be numbers that would be high enough to turn federal income tax withholding amount down to 0 for remaining paychecks in the year.The amount that has been taken from paychecks so far is influenced by what your W-4 settings have been, and depends on whether you are using Single or Married check box on W-4. So its not possible for us to know how much has been withheld to date because yall might have switched your W-4s from Single to Married at some point earlier this year.The good news is that if you file jointly you get a 24000 standard deduction amount that will not be taxed and the next 19050 of your income is taxed at 10, so if your AGI is under 43050, your tax is under 1905. If your AGI is over 43050, only the amount over gets taxed at 12.If your dependent is under 17, youll get child tax credit of 2000, which takes your tax down toward zero, possibly even yielding some money.So it seems likely that any fed tax you have paid in so far would get refunded to you, plus you might also get a little more. If you have already overpaid for the year, the IRS calculator would tell you the values to use on new W-4s so that for rest of year no more fed income tax gets taken. You will still have Soc Sec and Medicare tax taken from pay.Next year there may be a new W-4 that requires different inputs, so you will want to revisit the issue again next Jan, so 2019 withholding is appropriate for that year. 