Music you Music the process of filing your taxes is a bizarre Wonderland where nothing seems to quite make sense. Even though you came into the process full-sized, soon you start feeling smaller and smaller and smaller. This video will not attempt to cover every type of tax form; that would be, to use a technical governmental term, bananas. Rather, we will focus on the ones that most people will use. Tax filing requirements are different when you are employed by a company as an employee than when you are employed by your own business, which is also known as being a freelancer or a sole proprietor. In this video, we will focus on the filing requirements as an employee. In next week's video, we will give you the key information on being self-employed. This video will be divided into four parts: 1) how to prepare to prepare to prepare your tax return, 2) helps you prepare to prepare your tax return, 3) how to prepare your tax return, and 4) in summation. To fully explain how employees pay taxes, let's do as Wunderlanders do and begin at the beginning. Part 1: How to prepare to prepare to prepare your tax return. Now, to really understand how employee taxes work, we have to jump in the TARDIS and go back in time. Because you may not realize, you've been paying taxes all year long. Before you start employment, your employer will require you to fill out a federal and state W-4. The W-4 will ask you things like your marital status and how many exemptions you would like to claim. What's an exemption? Definition time! Exemptions are things that lessen your tax burden and pertain primarily to personal and dependency statuses. The IRS has a great W-4 worksheet on their website, but...