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)
3. Multiply the employee rate by the employee's wages to find the amount the company must withhold from the employee's paycheck for Social Security taxes. For example, if the employee's monthly pay equals $3,170, multiply $3,710 by 0.042 to find the company must withhold $133.14 for Social Security taxes. 4. Multiply the employer rate by the employee's pay to find the amount the company must pay to the government in employer Social Security taxes because of the payment to the employee. In this example, multiply 0.062 by $3,170 to find the company has to pay $196.54 in employer Social Security taxes.