Withholding Tax Enrages Wife

My wife and I both work. I also run a business, so we have a CPA prepare our personal and business tax returns. After figuring our joint return, my accountant said that we owed a balance of over $7500 because my wife's employer did not withhold enough federal tax from her paycheck. This same situation occurred last year. At that time I told her that she needed to have an additional $250 withheld from each paycheck.

"If I do that, I'll have less money to spend," she protested. And after that she either refused or forgot to submit the revised W-4 form. Now that the same thing occurred this year, I insisted that we correct the problem because it was forcing me into a position of paying all the taxes on my personal and business income plus kicking in another $7000 to make up for the shortfall on her income tax.

To be fair and to avoid the accusation that I was trying to "steal" money from her, I had our tax accountant fill in the W-4 form indicating the additional money that needed to be withheld from her paycheck. She needed to have $315 extra withheld from each paycheck.

On Monday, May 26 I left for a business trip. Since she had already left for work, I put a note on the W-4 form indicating that "Our accountant has filled in your W-4 form. You need to sign and submit it, if you agree."

That afternoon about 5 pm I got a call on my cell phone while I was at my client's location. As soon as I answered she launched into me, "I don't appreciate you leaving this here for me to sign, you mother fucker. I can't afford $315 extra from my paycheck. Why are you doing this? Are you trying to kick me while I'm down, you mother fucker......" On and on it went. She wouldn't let me get in a word. It was just a constant stream of profane insults until after 30 seconds or so she hung up. I called back, but she just repeated the barrage of insults and profane namecalling before hanging up again.

Get this....she expects me to apologize to her.