The Internal Revenue Service today released Notice 2021-11 PDF addressing how employers who elected to defer certain employees’ taxes can withhold and pay the deferred taxes throughout 2021 instead of just the first four months of the year.
In response to a presidential memorandum signed August 8, 2020, Notice 2020-65 was issued on August 28, 2020, giving employers the option to defer certain employees’ Social Security taxes from September 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020. This applied to employees paid less than $4,000 every two weeks, or an equivalent amount for other pay periods, with each pay period considered separately. The taxes, which are technically called Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance, or OASDI, are calculated at 6.2% of employees’ wages.
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