PaycheckBase corrections https://paycheckbase.com/corrections/ Every tax figure this site has gotten wrong, what it says now, and how the error was found. en-us Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Local income tax coverage (all states): The methodology page said local income tax was modeled for 3,521 jurisdictions. That number was the register count plus the individually-checked count, added together — but the two sets overlap. Ohio's register already contains Columbus and Cleveland, which are also among the individually-checked localities, so they were counted twice. The published datasets page, reading the registers directly, said 3,508 at the same time. https://paycheckbase.com/corrections/ohio/ 2026-09-10:ohio:Local income tax coverage (all states) Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Now says: The two are stated separately and never summed: 3,508 jurisdictions from the state registers, and 13 checked one at a time against each locality's own schedule, some of which also appear in a register. No combined total is published, because no source supports one. The register figure is the one used everywhere a single number is needed. Found by: A routine check while adding a local-tax link to the salary pages. The helper used for the link reported 666 municipalities for Ohio against a register of 663, which is the same overlap showing up somewhere it could be seen. Illinois — flagged, not corrected: The wage-garnishment floor may be overstated. This site says protection starts at 45 times the greater of the federal or Illinois minimum wage — $675 a week. The only reachable text of 735 ILCS 5/12-803 says 45 times the FEDERAL minimum wage, which would be $326.25. https://paycheckbase.com/corrections/illinois/ 2026-09-03:illinois:Illinois — flagged, not corrected Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Now says: Unchanged, and flagged in the code as unverified. The only copy of the statute reachable from here is an Internet Archive capture from June 2025; the Illinois General Assembly's site does not respond. Rewriting a published figure on the strength of a fourteen-month-old snapshot would be a worse error than leaving a marked one. Found by: Adding a source quote for the statute, and reading it. Nobody finds this by looking at the file. Georgia: Every figure was a year stale — the rate, the standard deduction and the dependent deduction. https://paycheckbase.com/corrections/georgia/ 2026-08-15:georgia:Georgia Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Now says: HB 463, signed 2026-05-11 and retroactive to 2026-01-01: rate 5.19% → 4.99%, standard deduction $15,000 single / $30,000 joint, dependent deduction $4,000 → $5,000. Found by: A re-read of the cited source. The URL was already correct — the Department publishes two revisions of the same document at the same address, and the older one had been read. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The city wage tax was 3.75%, which had been the rate two cuts earlier. https://paycheckbase.com/corrections/pennsylvania/ 2026-08-13:pennsylvania:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Now says: 3.735% for residents, from the City of Philadelphia's own effective-date table. The rate had fallen twice since the figure was first entered — to 3.74% in 2025 and 3.735% in 2026. Found by: A locality-by-locality re-check against each city's own publication, rather than a spot check. Yonkers, New York: The resident surcharge was 16.775% of New York State income tax. https://paycheckbase.com/corrections/new-york/ 2026-08-13:new-york:Yonkers, New York Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Now says: 16.75%, per New York State's IT-2105-I (2026) line 22a. The extra digit had no source behind it. Found by: The same locality re-check. Maine: The standard deduction was $8,350 single / $16,700 joint — figures that were not Maine's at all. https://paycheckbase.com/corrections/maine/ 2026-08-13:maine:Maine Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Now says: Maine's own 2026 amounts. The wrong pair appeared in more than one state file, which is how a single unsourced number spreads. Found by: Checking each figure against the state's own withholding tables instead of trusting the value already in the file. It was corrected twice: the first replacement turned out to be Maine's 2025 figures. Arizona: The standard deduction was wrong. https://paycheckbase.com/corrections/arizona/ 2026-08-13:arizona:Arizona Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Now says: $15,750 single / $23,625 head of household / $31,500 joint, per HB 4168, signed 2026-06-13 and retroactive to tax years after 2024-12-31. Found by: Tracing the figure to the statute. Arizona ties its deduction to the federal amount under A.R.S. 43-1041(H), so the number moves when a bill rewrites the base.