Here are a few common pre-tax payroll deductions: Contributions to 401(k) plans can be pre-tax deductions. There are yearly limits on such contributions; for more information, please refer to the IRS. Employers administering the plan can set a lower limit for employees.
It was white with a green pine tree and the motto An Appeal to Heaven and was adopted in April, 1776. Since flags at that time were all naval ensigns (the cloth things on poles carried by soldiers on land were standards, not flags), Massachusetts was the first to adopt a state flag.
Independence is won through the Revolutionary War and the colonies become the United States of America. June 14, 1777: The 13 colonies are represented in the first American flag. The Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that states that the American flag shall have 13 stripes, alternately in red and white, to represent the 13 colonies. Despite all of the variations of the U.S. flag over time, the 13 stripes have never changed.