You haven't seen the stuff I have. I have been in IT for 30 years and there are systems older than me running still. Try to zero the tax tables and you will have div/0 errors all over the place.
Your "40 dependents" doesn't zero the tax -- and it messes with MOAs and the like that are based on after-tax figures.
Dependents represent withholding, not tax assessed.
Trust me, I know of what I speak. I have installed HR and Financial systems for some of the largest companies in the world, as well as some very large government entities.
I’m in QA I’ve worked on financial software, I know quite well what’s out there.
There’s no need to zero out the table, 40 dependents would do it, dependents change the tax picture, both withheld and assessed. From the side of the company doing the pay they don’t need to worry about the final tax picture, that’s for the government to figure out.
Trust me, you’re wrong. I’ve helped design the software.
I'm not in payrool, so I'll take your word for it, but I'd like to see if a few people in a position to run a qucik simulation on thier systems can check to see what results ar if they have zero out the FDI and SSI tables. I bet the congress would like to know as well.