Refund Request Worksheet Form

Instructions and help about Refund Request Worksheet

okay for this video i wanted to quickly cover a request for a refund of fica taxes so fica taxes are payroll taxes withheld from your wages and so in certain cases in the u.s you might be exempt from fica taxes and so if you have them withheld from your paycheck you can file a refund claim to get those back so i've got one slide in front of us here with some of the rules and then an example uh form 843 which is the filing that's required in order to get this refund so generally if you are living and working in the u.s for a us-based employer your wages are going to be subject to federal payroll tax that is the baseline rule that applies to 99 of people that are living and working in the united states um the payroll tax is assessed under the um federal insurance contributions act that's where we get fica from and the tax rates um as of the end of 2021 um and going forward foreseeably here is going to be 6.2 percent um of social security tax and then a 1.45 medicare tax um these are asse