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• You're single, or married filing separately, and have only one pension; or
• You're married filing jointly, have only one pension, and your spouse has
no income subject to withholding; or . . . . . . . .
• Your income from a second pension or a job or your spouse’s pension or
wages (or the total of all) is $1,500 or less.
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• If your total income will be less than $71,201 ($103,351 if married filing jointly), enter “4” for each eligible child.
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• If you have more than one source of income subject to withholding or are married filing
jointly and you and your spouse both have income subject to withholding and your
combined income from all sources exceeds $53,000 ($24,450 if married filing jointly), see the
Multiple Pensions/More-Than-One-Income Worksheet on page 5 to avoid having too little tax withheld.
• If neither of the above situations applies, stop here and enter the number from line H on line
2 of Form W-4P above.
D
Enter “1” if:
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Child tax credit. See Pub. 972, Child Tax Credit, for more information.
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• If your total income will be from $71,201 to $179,050 ($103,351 to $345,850 if married filing jointly), enter “2”
for each eligible child.
• If your total income will be from $179,051 to $200,000 ($345,851 to $400,000 if married filing jointly), enter “1”
for each eligible child.
Your monthly retirement benefit is subject to federal taxes. You may choose your federal tax withholding preference
by completing Section G of your Form 6000, Notification of Retirement. If you do not complete Section G, KRS
will automatically withhold federal income tax based on married status with 3 exemptions. You may find the
worksheets below helpful when completing Section G.
Additional information is available on the Internal Revenue Service website at www.irs.gov.
Purpose. Form W4-P is for U.S. citizens, resident aliens, or their estates who are recipients of pensions, annuities
(including commercial annuities), and certain other deferred compensation. Use Form W4-P to tell payers the correct
amount of federal income tax to withhold from your payment(s). You also may use Form W4-P to choose (a) not to have
any federal tax withheld from the payment (except for eligible rollover distributions or payments to U.S. citizens delivered
outside the United States or its possessions) or (b) to have an additional amount of tax withheld.
What do I need to do? Complete lines A through H of the Personal Allowances Worksheet. Use the additional
worksheets on the following page to further adjust your withholding allowances for itemized deductions, adjustments to
income, any additional standard deduction, certain credits, or multiple pensions/more-than-one-income situations. If you
do not want any federal income tax withheld (see Purpose, earlier), you can skip the worksheets and go directly to the
Form W4-P, Section G of the Form 6000.
Future developments. For the latest information about any future developments affecting Form W-4P, such as
legislation enacted after we release it go to www.irs.gov/w4p.
Instructions / Page 3
Form W4-P Instructions
For accuracy,
complete all
worksheets
that apply.
Enter “1” if you will file as head of household .
Enter “1” if you will file as married filing jointly.
• If your total income will be higher than $200,000 ($400,000 if married filing jointly), enter “-0-”
G
Credit for other dependents. See Pub. 972, Child Tax Credit, for more information.
• If your total income will be less than $71,201 ($103,351 if married filing jointly), enter “1” for each eligible dependent.
• If your total income will be from $71,201 to $179,050 ($103,351 to $345,850 if married filing jointly), enter “1”
for every two dependents (for example, "-0-" for one dependent, "1" if you have two or three dependents, and
"2" if you have four dependents).
• If your total income will be higher than $179,050 ($345,850 if married filing jointly), enter "-0-"
Other credits. If you have other credits, see Worksheet 1-6 of Pub. 505 and enter the amount from that worksheet here.
H
Add lines A through G and enter the total here
H
• If you plan to itemize or claim adjustments to income and want to reduce your
withholding, or if you have a large amount of other income not subject to withholding and want to increase
your withholding, see the Deductions, Adjustments and Additional Income Worksheet, later.
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Personal Allowances Worksheet (Keep for your records.)