Why Target takes off so much taxes from final paycheck more than any major other retails like Walmart, Amazon, Macy's , and Primark

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I thought 1000/biweekly is good until I figure out after every two weeks that my final paycheck is only $689.9, like wth. I work at Primark, and I feel like I make almost twice the amount I was making in Target. Target and Primark both shart 15.2/hr (now pays 16/hr due to minimum wage increase atleast in NYS). I still feels like Target takes heck of more taxes. This is so frustrating what Target does. On top of that no discount unless Redcard is outrageous. I love the idea of Target being dress code flexible towards new employee as long as it is solid red, I don't like the idea of the corporation ripping off employees with outrageous taxes which deducts what deducts payment by almost half. I thought Amazon Warehouse is notorious for doing this, but Target does not even more, and deducts so much of employee's paycheck through taxes.

Does Target do that because it's a premium department store and needs more money to stock expensive products? Also, does Target take so much money through taxes for the purpose of funding expensive yearly store renovations?
 
concernedTM24 said:
I thought 1000/biweekly is good until I figure out after every two weeks that my final paycheck is only $689.9, like wth. I work at Primark, and I feel like I make almost twice the amount I was making in Target. Target and Primark both shart 15.2/hr (now pays 16/hr due to minimum wage increase atleast in NYS). I still feels like Target takes heck of more taxes. This is so frustrating what Target does. On top of that no discount unless Redcard is outrageous. I love the idea of Target being dress code flexible towards new employee as long as it is solid red, I don't like the idea of the corporation ripping off employees with outrageous taxes which deducts what deducts payment by almost half. I thought Amazon Warehouse is notorious for doing this, but Target does not even more, and deducts so much of employee's paycheck through taxes.

Does Target do that because it's a premium department store and needs more money to stock expensive products? Also, does Target take so much money through taxes for the purpose of funding expensive yearly store renovations?
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Target doesn't take more from your check because they are Target.
Take a look at the two checks, what looks different?
You may have claimed different deductions.
Are you getting health insurance?
Break it down, look at each deduction.
 
concernedTM24 said:
I thought 1000/biweekly is good until I figure out after every two weeks that my final paycheck is only $689.9, like wth. I work at Primark, and I feel like I make almost twice the amount I was making in Target. Target and Primark both shart 15.2/hr (now pays 16/hr due to minimum wage increase atleast in NYS). I still feels like Target takes heck of more taxes. This is so frustrating what Target does. On top of that no discount unless Redcard is outrageous. I love the idea of Target being dress code flexible towards new employee as long as it is solid red, I don't like the idea of the corporation ripping off employees with outrageous taxes which deducts what deducts payment by almost half. I thought Amazon Warehouse is notorious for doing this, but Target does not even more, and deducts so much of employee's paycheck through taxes.

Does Target do that because it's a premium department store and needs more money to stock expensive products? Also, does Target take so much money through taxes for the purpose of funding expensive yearly store renovations?
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You don’t need a red card to get discount you can use cash or a gift card.
 
What @commiecorvus said. If you're claiming the same number of exemptions for federal and state (and city, if applicable) taxes, your deductions for taxes should be about the same if your gross income is about the same. (There's some small variation in the tax tables, but it's negligible from one gross pay amount range to the next.)
But did you sign up for a 401(k), health insurance, any of that stuff? Those things can pile up.
 
concernedTM24 said:
I thought 1000/biweekly is good until I figure out after every two weeks that my final paycheck is only $689.9, like wth. I work at Primark, and I feel like I make almost twice the amount I was making in Target. Target and Primark both shart 15.2/hr (now pays 16/hr due to minimum wage increase atleast in NYS). I still feels like Target takes heck of more taxes. This is so frustrating what Target does. On top of that no discount unless Redcard is outrageous. I love the idea of Target being dress code flexible towards new employee as long as it is solid red, I don't like the idea of the corporation ripping off employees with outrageous taxes which deducts what deducts payment by almost half. I thought Amazon Warehouse is notorious for doing this, but Target does not even more, and deducts so much of employee's paycheck through taxes.

Does Target do that because it's a premium department store and needs more money to stock expensive products? Also, does Target take so much money through taxes for the purpose of funding expensive yearly store renovations?
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Your probably selected different deduction amount at primark.
 
Why do you guys even bother? That's definitely a teenager who doesn't understand taxes and didn't even try to compare checks. Just a bunch of conspiracy theories. My god that was hard to read.
 
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Why do you guys even bother? That's definitely a teenager who doesn't understand taxes and didn't even try to compare checks. Just a bunch of conspiracy theories. My god that was hard to read.
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That wasn't as bad as some of the ones we've gotten.
It's weird what you get used to over the years.
 
BKop16 said:
Some people really do not understand taxes and deductions.
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Some people think it's a lot more complicated than it is, so they don't really try to understand it.
Also, there's that story about Burger King discontinuing a 1/3-pound burger a few years back. Sales were awful because people wouldn't order it, thinking it was smaller than the 1/4-pounder.
 
Go line by line on your paycheck, and Google what each deduction means. Please. It has nothing to do with Target keeping money from you. They should be paying more, but that’s a separate issue.

I got a new job in June, I work in education for the state now. I looked at my last paycheck, and nearly 29% was withheld. These went towards things like health insurance, retirement, federal and state income tax, Medicare tax, and social security. This isn’t unique to Target, and these are good things. They fund important public programs, and make sure we retire comfortably and securely.
 
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If you work more than one job you need to fill oyt your w4 properly. Either you can have all taxes taken from one joh or splut it between both. If yiu dont fill out a w4 statinf your preference and adjusting what you need for allocationa it will automatically switch to one of them. Mine did that as I didnt realize I needed to do new w4s for one of them. So I ended up just swapping my lowest paying job to no taxes and taken it out of my bigger check.

I woukd recommend stopping by something like H and R block or your preferred tax place and chatting with them to ensure what your getting out is peoper
 
obviously Daddy Brian is skimming/tipping himself from your paycheck and the only recourse is to call Saul and split the settlement 50/50 with yours truly

srsly tho, and in addition to doing the above you should also recheck your selected deductions as others itt have pointed out, you may have hecked up your W4 which in turn has prompted Uncle Samantha to yeet a larger chonk for xirself than xie is in fact owed....I too was in this unenvious spot one infamous year after I done did my taxes only to discover that I was in arrears to the tax ladyboi in the amount of $900...my parents were bootyblasted enough to almost let me go to jail as a character-building life lesson but in the end MasterCard saved me from having to do time and at the conclusion of the ordeal I had further concluded that jail time would've been preferable to my p*rents as creditors
 
There was some A&W restaurants in my area at one time but they moved out by the time I was old enough to remember. So any discussion I've heard about the chain locally is from those who remember it.
 

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