What specific taxes are deducted from a pay check?

What specific taxes are deducted from a pay check?

I know there is :
-Federal Income Tax
-State Income Taz (a few states don’t have this)
-Property Tax

Related Blogs


This entry was posted on Sunday, August 29th, 2010 at 5:53 pm and is filed under Taxes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “What specific taxes are deducted from a pay check?”

  1. Nope. Property tax does not come out of your paycheck. Property taxes are not a payroll tax. What actually comes out of your pay check is:

    Federal income tax
    FICA (Social security tax)
    Medicare tax

    The rest varies by state. Possibilities include:
    State income tax
    workers comp premium tax

  2. In the US, your employer is required to withhold the following taxes, although the amounts for some taxes may be $0, depending on your W-4 filing status.

    Federal Taxes
    FICA- Social Security Tax
    FICA- Medicare Tax

    State taxes (vary based on state)
    Local taxes (based on city/county)
    State Disablity Taxes (based on state)

Leave a Reply