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Last Week in Payroll: Federal Employment Taxes

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Federal Employment Taxes. The United States first imposed a federal income tax briefly during the American Civil War and also in the 1890s. Constitution in 1913 that permanently legalized a federal income tax. And in 2013, the Additional Medicare tax (0.9%) on wages in excess of $200,000 took effect.

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Last Week in Payroll: Localization of Work

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The H-2B temporary non-agricultural worker program is designed to serve U.S. workers to perform non-agricultural work of a temporary nature. Switzerland Tax Treaty, are eligible for an exemption from tax withholding on dividends that they receive, provided that all other requirements of the Treaty are satisfied.

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