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Determine how much to withhold from an employee's paycheck. so those withholding tables will be adjusted to reflect these higher amounts, and that should result in lower withholding from the employees and therefore, higher paychecks. >> and you were mentioning the tax bracketts, the irs is bumpig up all seven brackets to those higher thresholds. all put together, how significant is this? >> well, you know, as you said, the 7% increase is the largest we've had in many years, and so looking at those numbers, the increase in the standard deduction, they're talking hundreds of dollars there and th...

So the -- if you are a taxpayer whose income has not gone up that same 7% then you would see a lower tax bill, because more of your income would fall in that higher standard deduction or more of your income would fall in a lower tax bracket. if, however, you've been lucky enough that your income has gone up that 7% along with inflation, then the goal is to keep you in the same place so that your taxes will be about the same as they were in the past. >> so, how much does this really help offset rising costs? are families and individuals, are they going to see a meaningful difference in their po...

Here and there no refund at all or they have to pay for the first time. look at the local headlines. spokane, washington, for example, wash your federal tax refund only a pittance, you're not alone. charleston, south carolina and maine warning the same. the detroit free press points out smaller refunds means some won't catch up on their bills. with us, ben white. what was interesting to me as i was looking at local newspapers, frankly, a lot of them just cut and paste. these are real local stories that local reporters have gone out. they've been the headlines in the newspaper. that's really go...

Didn't understand that it was also going to be coming out of their what they thought would be in their pocket in the future. >> and that's where i empathize. >> i empathize with people that had expected a refund because they somehow had the misinformation that that's money coming to them from the government and not their money coming back so what we have to do going forward is educate people on withholding tables and making sure that their paychecks reflect what they want to have held backs into the next tax season, and in the next time we are 100% sure most average americans have more money i...