Form Updates - July 8, 2025

Federal

Form 8233 instructions updated

Form Title: Exemption From Withholding on Compensation for Independent (and Certain Dependent) Personal Services of a Nonresident Alien Individual

Form ID: W8101

Form version: 2018.9.0

The instructions for Form 8233 have been updated to include a hyperlink to the Instructions for Form 8233 PDF.

Users will now see a hyperlink for the instructions PDF added to the eligibility survey:

Previous instructions:

Updated instructions:

Michigan

PW-4 Validation Error Message updated

Form Title: Employee's Withholding Certificate for the City of Portland Income Tax

Form ID: MI120

Form version: 2024.01.0

The validation error message for QS2 Exemptions in Form MI120 has been updated to accurately align with the validation Regex.

As a reminder, the validation egex currently allows values 0-100: ("^([1-9][0-9]{0,1}|0|100)$")

Previous validation message:

"Value must be a whole number zero or greater, but less than 10,000,000"

Updated validation message:

"Please enter a number between 0-100"

Error message returned via the tax parameters for missing Federal EINs where required

As of this release, if a form requires the Federal EIN, an error message will be returned via the tax parameters in the postback. NOTE That Click Boarding is scoping the ability to collect Federal EIN and will have an enhancement in the future to capture this value.

The following 2 forms currently use the tax parameter employerAdditionalInfoRequired. Due to the enhancement described above, MISSING_FEDERAL_EIN is being added to the available values for this tax parameter:

• IA W4 (ID: IA101)
• IA W4 (SP) (ID: IA101SP)

The following 4 forms currently use the tax parameter employerAdditionalInfoRequired. Due to the enhancement described above, MISSING_FEDERAL_EIN and MISSING_STATE_AND_FEDERAL_EIN values are being added:

• G-4 (ID: GA101)
• W-4MN (ID: MN103)
• W-4MN(SP) (ID: MN103SP)
• MW-4 (ID: MT101)

The following 30 forms will have the tax parameter employerAdditionalInfoRequired added (with MISSING_FEDERAL_EIN or NOT_APPLICABLE as possible values):

• A4 (ID: AL101)
• A4(SP) (ID: AL101SP)
• A4-MS (ID: AL103)
• W-4 (ID: CO101)
• CT-W4 (ID: CT101)
• DE-W4 (ID: DE101)
• IL-W-5-NR (ID: IL102)
• MW 507 (ID: MD101)
• W-4ME (ID: ME101)
• MI-W4 (ID: MI101)
• MWR (ID: MN102)
• MO W-4 (ID: MO101)
• NDW-R (ID: ND101)
• W-4 (ID: ND104)
• NDW-M (ID: ND105)
• W-4 (ID: NM101)
• IT-2104-E (ID: NY103)
• PFL-WAIVER (ID: NY108)
• OR-W-4 (ID: OR101)
• OR-W-4(SP) (ID: OR101SP)
• REV-419EX (ID: PA103)
• CLGS-32-6 (ID: PA114)
• SC W-4 (ID: SC101)
• W-4 (ID: UT101)
• W-4 (ID: W4101)
• W-4(SP) (ID: W4101SP)
• 8233 (ID: W8101)
• WT-4 (ID: WI101)
• WT-4(SP) (ID: WI101SP)
• W-221 (ID: WI107)

As of this release for each of the above forms, if the Federal EIN is not included in the registration, the following tax parameters will return with the following values:

employerIntervention: true

employerAdditionalInfoRequired: MISSING_FEDERAL_EIN

As of this release for each of the above forms, if Federal EIN is included in the registration, the following tax parameters will return with the following values:

employerIntervention: false

employerAdditionalInfoRequired: NOT_APPLICABLE