# Federal income tax withholding

> Federal income tax withholding — The income tax an employer withholds from each paycheck, worked out from the employee's Form W-4 by a method in IRS Pub. 15-T — in an automated payroll, the percentage method and Worksheet 1A — and deposited with FICA.

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**What is federal income tax withholding?** In accounting, federal income tax withholding means the income tax an employer withholds from each paycheck, worked out from the employee's Form W-4 by a method in IRS Pub. 15-T — in an automated payroll, the percentage method and Worksheet 1A — and deposited with FICA.

## Words this system refuses for it

- payroll tax unqualified
- income tax expense (the company's own tax)

- **Category:** Payroll
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)
- **Related:** form-w-4, fica