tax codes

IRS guideline systems

Tax codes are the numbered and lettered classifications that determine how much income tax is withheld from wages.

In the UK, employers use tax codes assigned by HMRC to calculate deductions: My tax code changed after I started receiving a pension.

The term also refers broadly to the body of tax law itself—the rules governing how taxes are assessed and collected: The tax code runs thousands of pages.

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