How the "Making Work Pay" Tax Credit Affects Your Paycheck

The federal stimulus package of 2009 included a new tax credit called "Making Work Pay," in which taxpayers will receive between approximately $400 and $800 from the government. Unusually, however, it will be paid via employee paychecks -- and could change the amount of tax you'd expected to owe or receive next April.

Sandra Block, USA TODAY columnist and author of Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes and Busy Family's Guide to Money, goes over the details in her April 7 column, "Tax windfall now, pay later?"