RangerJoe

So, every year I qualify for EIC. Recently, though, my job informed their employees that if they qualified, they are required to fill out a w-5 and turn it into HR.

Off I went to the IRS website to find out what exactly a w-5 is. It turns out that it is an option for the taxpayer who earns EIC. They can fill out the W-5 and get EIC payments through the year instead of all at once at tax time. However, this is an option, not a requirement. My job is passing it off as a must do. I like receiving my money at tax time and am not quite so sure I want to do this. So, how do I go about addressing this with HR?

inBOIL

Can you start by telling HR what you just told us?

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RangerJoe

Probably. :P I guess my main thing is that I'm not sure I have my information wrong. Did I misread the IRS website? I don't want to come across as a know-it-all, because I'm not.

inBOIL

Approach them like you're asking for advice. "I heard X from you, and Y from the IRS, and I don't want Z to happen, what should I do?"

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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.