Information literacy, while showing significant overlap with information technology skills, is a distinct and broader area of competence. Increasingly, information technology skills are interwoven with, and support, information literacy.
The law requires that payroll taxes must be withheld from an employee's paycheck. Learn how to calculate and report deductions. The law requires that payroll taxes must be withheld from an employee's paycheck. 1  Employers must then transmit these withholdings to various tax agencies. Payroll tax deductions include the following: 2  Federal income tax withholding (based on withholding tables in Publication 15)
Your employer must deduct these taxes even if you do not expect to qualify for social security or Medicare benefits. In general, U.S. social security and Medicare taxes apply to payments of wages for services performed as an employee in the United States, regardless of the citizenship or residence of either the employee or the employer. In limited situations, these taxes apply to wages for services performed outside the United States.