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.
The Story Behind the First Cell Phone Call Ever Made. On April 3, 1973, an engineer named Martin Cooper did something crazy: He made a phone call while walking down the street. Cooper was heading up a team of engineers at Motorola who were working to build the worldâs first cellular telephone.