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Employers that pay wages and other forms of compensation to their employees must comply with federal tax return filing and payment/deposit requirement. Employers that receive services from non-employee contractors and which make payments to these contractors must also separately report these payments. The IRS imposes penalties on employers who fail to timely meet their filing requirements, as well as penalties and interest for not making timely tax deposits and/or payments to the IRS.

  1. Penalties

Forms 941 and 940

  • Subject to limited "reasonable cause" exceptions, the failure to ...

Employers that pay wages and other forms of compensation to their employees must comply with federal tax return filing and payment/deposit requirement. Employers that receive services from non-employee contractors and make payments to these contractors must also separately report these payments.

  1. Federal Employment Tax - Form 941

a. Employers are required to collect federal employee income withholding taxes and the employee's share of Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes (FICA), from wages paid to employees, match the employee's share of FICA, and deposit these ...

Businesses that have employees and pay wages and salaries must withhold federal employee income taxes and the employee's share of federal employment taxes (FICA) from these wages and salaries. The employer must "match" the employee's FICA share, and these three components then become the employer's "federal tax deposit," which the employer must electronically pay to the IRS periodically. The frequency of when federal tax deposits must be made by an employer varies (weekly, bi-monthly, monthly, etc.) depending on the amount of these federal "payroll" taxes that are due.

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