Is it normal that I owe taxes if I got a raise in the middle of the year?

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I am just wondering if in general, employers don't withhold enough for this sort of thing

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Your responsibility not there's, could be for a number of things, but actually looks like you did well, remember the goal is to neither owe anything or receive anything when you file your return. Owing $127 is pretty close

I know that, but I didn't really do anything differently when I filed. I think it has to do with my company withholding too much last year, and too little this year, although that may be obvious.

Unless I managed to frick up TurboTax

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company withholding too much last year

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That has nothing to do with your company. That is between you and the tax man.

174 is pretty damn good..assuming witholdings didn't change and deductions were close, you probably fell right over the border of a new tax bracket. That will sometimes shift around how close the overall witholding table comes to actual.. This is assuming you didn't get hit with a small amount of AMT.