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Additional Unemployment Benefits (3/5)
Tax Withholding
You can choose to have federal income
tax withheld from your unemployment
compensation.
To make this choice, complete Form W-
4V, Voluntary Withholding Request,
and give it to the paying office. Supplemental unemployment
Tax will be withheld at 10% of your benefits
payment. If you don’t choose to have
tax withheld from your unemployment Benefits received from an employer-
compensation, you may be liable for financed fund (to which the employees
estimated tax. didn’t contribute) aren’t unemployment
If you don’t pay enough tax, either compensation.
through withholding or estimated tax, They are taxable as wages. For more
or a combination of both, you may information, see Supplemental
have to pay a penalty. Unemployment Benefits in section 5 of
For more information on estimated tax, Pub. 15-A, Employer's Supplemental Tax
see chapter 4. Guide.
Report these payments on line 1 of Form
1040 or 1040-SR.
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