If your wages are garnished can you change your w-4 and deposit money to the IRS?

Question

I was told it is against the law.

Answer 1

I think I see where you're going here and yes, you can change your W4 to "single - none" and more will be withheld. The withholding will come out before the garnishment (because the IRS will get their part of your pay).

You'll be reducing your weekly/monthly net though - you could end up in a $0 paycheck situation and the garnishment will continue until it's been paid out.

Careful how you word what you['re trying to do here - it's just a tax issue and nothing else, you want to make sure you don't owe the IRS in April. If you tell people you're trying to avoid this garnishment.... ouch.

Answer 2

The IRS does not garnish wages, they levy them. some would say that this is a question of semantics yet a garnishment demands a court docket order on an identical time as a levy is an administrative action via the IRS. The levy protects the government's pastime interior the taxes which you owe. The IRS seldom seizes the relatives abode (yet 2d properties, RVs etc. are all honest pastime) in spite of the undeniable fact that in case you do no longer make the attempt to establish a value plan to sparkling the debt then they're going to at last hotel to enforced sequence via using levy of your wages (or debts receivable while you're self-employed) and levy of any economic organisation or investment debts.

Answer 3

Not sure what you are asking. If you change your W-4 to have more withheld, it won't change the amount of the garnishment, you'll just end up with even less take-home pay. You can't have enough withheld to cut into the garnishment amount.

Answer 4

When the court sets the garnishment amount, they allow for your estimated taxes. The garnishment is taken from your gross wages after allowances for taxes and basic living expenses. It is NOT taken from your net pay. This will just reduce your take-home pay without reducing the amount of the garnishment at all. Although you will get the excess back at tax time, you'll REALLY be living hand-to-mouth all year.