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What is Payroll Tax?

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When business owners pay their employees’ wages, the law requires them to make tax payments on their behalf. Simply put, payroll taxes are taxes paid on the wages and salaries of a company’s employees. This is the tax that is withheld from employees’ salaries for federal income taxes owed by them. Medicare Tax.

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AbelHR: What is Payroll Tax?

Abel HR

When business owners pay their employees’ wages, the law requires them to make tax payments on their behalf. Simply put, payroll taxes are taxes paid on the wages and salaries of a company’s employees. This is the tax that is withheld from employees’ salaries for federal income taxes owed by them. Medicare Tax.

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The A-Z of payroll outsourcing UK

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Any outsourced payroll provider will need to be able to handle pension deductions from an employee’s salary when performing payroll runs. If a payroll outsourcing company is BACS-approved, it will be able to pay employees and also bodies such as HMRC, directly on behalf of the employer.

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