withholdings
Taken before payment
Withholdings are amounts deducted from pay before you receive it—typically for taxes, insurance, or retirement contributions.
The term appears most often in payroll contexts: My withholdings went up after the tax law changed.
The singular withholding usually refers to the practice or system rather than individual amounts.
Conclusions from reasoning
- paycheckCompensation for labor
- W-4Employee tax withholding certificate
- allowancesPermitted amounts or stipends
- pre-taxBefore levies apply
employer · garnishment · mandatory · voluntary · federal · state · local · FICA
Federal tax collector
- W-2Employer-issued tax form
- 1040Annual federal filing
- refundMoney returned after purchase
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
estimated · quarterly · brackets · adjusted · filing · audit · revenue · levy
Tax-advantaged retirement savings account
- IRATax-advantaged retirement fund
- pensionRetiree's ongoing benefit
- contributionSomething given to help
- pre-taxBefore levies apply
Roth · matching · vesting · payroll · automatic · deferral · FSA · benefits
Court-ordered debt collection
- court-orderedRequired by judicial ruling
- alimonyCourt-ordered post-divorce payments
- creditorOne owed money
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
lien · seizure · enforcement · debtor · arrears · mandatory · compliance · collection
deductions
Conclusions from reasoning
- paycheckCompensation for labor
- W-4Employee tax withholding certificate
- allowancesPermitted amounts or stipends
pre-tax · employer · garnishment · mandatory · voluntary · federal · state · local · FICA · Medicare
IRS
Federal tax collector
liability · estimated · quarterly · brackets · adjusted · filing · audit · revenue · levy · compliance
401(k)
Tax-advantaged retirement savings account
- IRATax-advantaged retirement fund
- pensionRetiree's ongoing benefit
- contributionSomething given to help
pre-tax · Roth · matching · vesting · payroll · automatic · deferral · FSA · benefits · elective
garnishment
Court-ordered debt collection
- court-orderedRequired by judicial ruling
- alimonyCourt-ordered post-divorce payments
- creditorOne owed money
judgment · lien · seizure · enforcement · debtor · arrears · mandatory · compliance · collection
- chargesfees, surcharges, levies, service charges, service fees
- compensationpay, salary, income, wage, bonus
- tax deductionsdeductions, tax deductions, exemptions, standard deduction, itemized deductions
withholdingsnet pay
Earnings after withholdings
take-home pay · disbursements · gross pay · payouts · deposits
withholdingsreleases
Lets go or publishes
disclosures · disbursements · distributions · revelations · issuances
withholdingsnet pay
Earnings after withholdings
take-home pay · disposable income · earnings · paycheck · net income
- income withholdingPre-payment salary extraction
- withholding affectionDeliberately denying emotional warmth
- tax withholdingEmployer-retained government payment
- withholding taxesPre-collected income levies
- withholding taxEmployer-remitted income levy
- federal withholdingEmployer-deducted government tax