Okay!! I just spent an hour and a half on the phone with Intuit Easy ACCT customer service.  Lovely gal who was very patient and listened to what I had to say.  I believe I know what the problem is, but not how to fix it.  I hope she can relay that to the programmers and hopefully someone is also listening into this conversation.

On the LA Withholding Tables & Formula publication effective after January 1, 2022, there is a note at the bottom of the "COMPUTER FORMULA METHOD" page that states:

REMEMBER, IF ANY OF THE VARIABLES IN THE FORMULA ARE NEGATIVE, THE NEGATIVE VARIABLE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ZERO

So, what i found out, plugging in all numbers into the listed formula, is that there comes a point where the total wage minus the personal exemptions equals a negative number.  Then when you multiply that negative number times the tax rate, you get another negative number.  Dividing the negative tax amount by the pay period, gives you that small amount of negative withholding tax.  It seems to only happen whenever you have someone claiming 1 or more exemption, because you subtract that low yearly wages from $4500 exemption and you get a negative earnings to multiply the tax rates on.

I hope that made sense!  But I think if you follow the formula method you will see what I'm talking about. 

Anyhow, I got an investigation number and a case number and hopefully within 24 - 48 hours I'll get an update and they will fix it. I don't want to think my time was wasted and they don't fix it.  Otherwise, I guess I'll have to try to figure out what line to enter on the tax table to get it fixed.