Workers are discovering that a new overtime tax break is proving less generous – and more complicated – than expected.
In some cases, workers are discovering they can’t even claim the deduction without doing extra legwork. Pittsburgh tax accountant Howard Davis said a client recently came in expecting to write off his overtime pay, only to realize his W-2 didn’t break it out.
“I told him to go back to his employer and get some kind of print out which shows what his overtime hours were,” said Davis, president of Davis, Davis & Associates in the Strip District…