Tax Overrides for Federal and State Income Taxes

You can now override Check's calculated federal and state income tax withholding on individual payroll items using a new “tax_overrides” field on Payroll Item API! This feature is available in Sandbox today, and will be made available in Production next Thursday, July 2nd.

Tax overrides allow you to build support into your payroll product for cases where employers and employees want a specific withholding tax amount withheld, instead of the amount that would normally be calculated based on the employee’s W-4 elections. For example, an employer could use this  to reduce or zero out withholding on an off-cycle bonus or if their employee is following a specific tax withholding strategy defined by their CPA.

For more details about tax overrides and how to integrate, refer to our API guide and Payroll Item API documentation.