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Fill out Form W-4 online, without uploading it

Employee's Withholding Certificate. Tells your employer how much federal income tax to withhold from your pay.

Open Form W-4 in PDFPane Free · opens in your browser · nothing is uploaded

About Form W-4

• Who fills it in: Employees, when they start a job or want to change their withholding.
• Where it goes: Your employer — not the IRS.
• Steps 2 to 4 are optional; Step 1 and the signature in Step 5 are not.
• The IRS Tax Withholding Estimator on irs.gov helps with the numbers.

How to fill it in with PDFPane

1. Click Open Form W-4 in PDFPane. The official blank opens with every fillable box highlighted.
2. Click the first box and press Tab to go through them in order. Tick boxes with a click.
3. Need a signature? Pick Sign, then draw it, type it or use a photo, and place it on the line. Date adds today's date.
4. Click Download. You get a new PDF with everything filled in. Free: 3 downloads a month with a Google sign-in.

This is the official PDF published by the IRS, see its page for the current edition and instructions. PDFPane is not affiliated with the IRS and does not give tax or legal advice.