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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Plenty of reasons why you'd have no tax liability in a particular year.
Yes, but you have to have had none the previous year to claim the tax exempt status that lets you avoid any withholding.
Horseshit.
If I'm not going to have a tax liability this year, I don't have to allow withholding this year. Last year's tax liability is irrelevant to the issue. There is nothing in the tax code that requires me to loan money to the IRS that I know they will just have to return to me later.
The reason not to do this is the additional penalty they will assess if my tax liability this year isn't actually zero.
https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc753
I'm not sure why you thought I was making this up.
Why do you think I need "exempt status" to achieve zero withholding in a particular year?