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Employment Taxes for Small Businesses

What Are Employment Taxes?
If you have employees, you are responsible for Federal Income Tax Withholding, Social Security and Medicare taxes and Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA).

Independent Contractors vs. Employees
Are you or your help independent consultants or employees? Before you can know how to treat payments you make for services, you must first know the business relationship that exists between you and the person performing the services.

Businesses with Employees
If you plan to start a business with employees or currently operating a business with employees you need to know your tax responsibilities as an employer. This section briefly discusses a variety of topics that businesses who have employees and/or employers should know.

Self-Employment Tax
The Self-Employment Tax is a social security and Medicare tax for individuals who work for themselves.

What are FTDs and why are they important?
What are FTDs and why they are important?

e-file for Business and Self-Employed Taxpayers
IRS e-file and electronic payment options for employment taxes, information returns, partnerships, corporations, estates & trusts and returns for charities and nonprofit organizations.

Employment Tax Forms
This page provides a listing of the common employment tax forms that a small business or self-employed person would need

Employment Tax Notices
This page provides a listing of IRS notices that would be interest to a small business owner or a self-employed person

Employment Tax Publications
This page provides a listing of the common employment tax publications that a small business or self-employed person would need

How To Use the Income Tax Withholding and Advance Earned Income Credit (EIC) Payment Tables
There are several ways to figure income tax withholding. This explains methods of withholding based on information you get from your employees on Form W-4.

Frequently Asked Tax Questions and Answers
Welcome to the Internal Revenue Service's questions and answers section.