That's because Sprint taxes your commission as a "bonus" as opposed to "earned income." Those hters! 🤣

What I did (in case anyone cares) is I claimed higher on my W4 (tax withholding thing) and had less taken out of my regular pay so when I get raped by commission taxes, it doesn't hurt as much. I didn't owe anything to the IRS, either. In fact, I got money back this year! (I do have a kid though....)

I work at a third party seller, 100% commission, tax is fair not bad for us, 100% commission is pretty good, I know a guy at the corporate store that gets paid 8.20 an hour and gets commission off of how many activations he had, he said it was difficult to tell....i like our system here, you work to earn

I was curious about them taxing it as "supplemental" income....

Why didn't alamosa do this and am i going to just end up getting it back on my tax return? or do they litterally bump us into another category of taxing when they consider it supplemental?

I don't know why Sprint taxes your income this way. I think they probably reason it by saying that you have a guaranteed salary that you earn anually, and anything in excess of that salary is considered a bonus, which is why they tax it the way they do.

And yes, I got it all back at the end of the year! 🙂

Let me just say, however, that I don't know what your tax situation is. Although commission will be taxed as a bonus for you, you will not be put in a different tax bracket because you are still earning the same amount of income regardless of how Sprint taxes it. When you get your next commission check from Sprint, you will see that they do not take such as insurance of additional W4 withholding that you opted for (extra cash taken out just because) because they cannot withhold items such as that on bonus checks.

I claim 5 on my W4, and still had 40% of my commission checks withheld. I got back all of my taxes back at the end of the year. However, I also got Earned Income Credit and a Childcare Tax Credit because of my daughter. So it wi...
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