How the Idaho estimate works
Enter gross pay for one pay period, federal W-4 adjustments, and the state details shown above. Federal withholding follows Publication 15-T. Idaho reduces current wages by the pay-period child-tax-credit allowance value for each Form ID W-4 allowance, subtracts the official threshold for the selected withholding status, applies 5.3%, and rounds the percentage-table result to the nearest whole dollar before adding the employee’s whole-dollar additional amount.
Example: Idaho’s official example uses $1,212 of biweekly wages, single-rate status, and four allowances. After subtracting $595.08 of allowance value, 5.3% of the amount over $577 rounds to $2 of Idaho withholding. The calculator does not assume any unentered benefit deduction or invent a tax result.
Weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, and monthly are the supported paycheck frequencies. “Annual salary” is an earnings input and the annual view is a simple period multiplication; neither is an annual payroll-period method. The special Form W-4 adjustment for nonresident aliens is not modeled.