Employer-paid group-term life insurance coverage in excess of $50,000 This fringe benefit is subject to the withholding of Social Security and Medicare taxes (FICA) only. Though the amount is included in gross wages, federal and state income tax withholding is not required.
To get the answer to that question, we need to look back more than a century. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. And then in 1900, on December 23 on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., an inventor named Reginald Fessenden accomplished a remarkable feat: He made the first wireless telephone call.
Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 â August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.