A suit brought by two workers against the IRS\u2019s maximum paycheck withholding rule should be dismissed for seeking to enjoin tax collection, the US government told a Texas federal court. <\/p>\n
Matthew Lobdell and Shawn Gibson sued<\/a> last month in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, targeting a Treasury regulation that allows the IRS to issue \u201clock-in letters\u201d directing employers to ignore employee tax withholding forms and withhold maximum taxes from paychecks. The request is barred by the Anti-Injunction Act because it would functionally block tax collection, federal authorities said in a Wednesday brief<\/a> opposing the plaintiffs\u2019 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suit brought by two workers against the IRS\u2019s maximum paycheck withholding rule should be dismissed for seeking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[139508,142049,10642,142048,50710,142051,12917,142050,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-405578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-collection-of-tax","tag-federal-income-tax-withholding","tag-federal-tax","tag-final-wage-payments","tag-government-employees","tag-information-returns","tag-preliminary-injunctions","tag-state-income-tax-withholding","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}