When employers pay their employees, they must remit payment for federal, state and, in some cases, local programs. Employees also pay a portion of the tax bill, but self-employed individuals must ...

If you’re wondering why your paycheck is smaller than your salary suggests it should be, the answer may be payroll taxes. Businesses collect these taxes regularly and pay them on behalf of their ...

Successful businesses must stay on top of their accounting. Learn how to use payroll journal entries to track wages and other ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Janet Berry-Johnson is a CPA with 10 years of experience in public accounting and writes ...

Employers routinely withhold income and employment taxes from their employees' pay and then deposit the withheld taxes on behalf of their employees. If they fail to do so, a "responsible person" at ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Each day the payroll tax saga gets more complicated, and the public no doubt gets more confused. Bloomberg reporter Brian Faler ...