What kind of year was it last year? I finally filled out my taxes and I have a W-2 form with a total of $92 for the entire income. And that's one of two W-2 forms in which no taxes were taken out because the amount of money was so low. It looks like I'm getting a huge refund from the state but I'm paying a huge chunk to the Federal Government. The reason? Unemployment isn't taxable in the state of California, but taxable to the Feds. Which makes total amount of sense- I just got taxed for money earned because I wasn't working. Fucking Congress. What's up with that? I bet if I had sent my unemployment to some tax shelter in the Cayman Islands, I wouldn't be paying a cent in taxes.