Question on additional withholding. Why was more than my +$131 taken out?

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Hello,

So I finally got sick of owing at the end of the year and used the IRS withholding estimator to figure out how much additional flat tax to request my employers to take out of my pay checks.

The calculator said I needed to add $131 for my full time job which I did, however, my next paycheck had almost an additional $260 in FITW.

I redid the calculation with my most recent paycheck and the estimator said I would now be owed a refund of almost $2k and that in order to bring my refund/amount due to $0 I should 'lower' my additional flat tax withholding to $176.

I'm super confused.

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