[quote author="awgee" date=1233033184][quote author="usctrojanman29" date=1233032428][quote author="awgee" date=1233031309][quote author="usctrojanman29" date=1233019228][quote author="WINEX" date=1233015641]Then choose to apply your refund to your 2009 state income taxes and reduce your state withholding taxes (or underpay your quarterlies) to offset the refund you are due.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.</blockquote>
Yup, just increase your exemptions and make sure that you will owe taxes even after applying the credit.</blockquote>
Be careful. If you owe too much, you will be lible for penalties and interest.</blockquote>
Of course, you can't owe too much. Does the state also have the "safe harbor" rule for withholdings like the IRS has?</blockquote>
Sorry, I do not know what you mean by <em>"safe harbor" rule for withholdings like the IRS has"</em>.</blockquote>
Where as long as you withhold the lesser of 100% of prior year's tax liability or 90% of the current year tax liability but not to be greater than $1,000...you will not be fined for not withholding enough federal taxes from your paycheck (learned this in my tax class back in my undergrad days).