Crossword clues for withholding
withholding
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Withhold \With*hold"\, v. t. [imp. Withheld; p. p. Withheld, Obs. or Archaic Withholden; p. pr. & vb. n. Withholding.]
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To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him.
--Spenser. -
To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good.
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To keep; to maintain; to retain. [Obs.]
To withhold it the more easily in heart.
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary. 2 The tax so deducted, and paid to local or national government. vb. (present participle of withhold English)
WordNet
n. the act of deducting from an employee's salary
income tax withheld from employees' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer [syn: withholding tax]
the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control; "I resented his withholding permission"; "there were allegations of the withholding of evidence"
Usage examples of "withholding".
For an excellent and comprehensive treatise on the origins of withholding see Charlotte Twight, Ph.
Thy pathway what Thou hast bestowed upon them, safeguarding Thy Faith, putting their trust in their remembrance of Thee, offering up their hearts for love of Thee, and withholding not what they possess in adoration for Thy Beauty and in their search for ways to please Thee.
He agreed the documents were not incriminating, but he felt that withholding nonincriminating material made zero sense.
Starr had read through the entire referral a number of times, giving or withholding his approval for all the changes.
Then I gave those numbers to my friend and had him search through the IRS data bank for any employer that had made withholding deposits to us on behalf of those Social Security numbers.
The thing is, I can determine the annual salary of the person by reviewing the withholding payments and assuming a tax rate.
Judging by the withholding amount, the gross amount must have been almost two hundred thousand dollars.
A week after LFA made the withholding they came back to the IRS and claimed they had made a mistake.
The tax withholding system has fooled many Americans into thinking of April 15 as refund day instead of tax day.
Before withholding came along, you can bet your life savings that people knew how much they were paying in income tax.
Few people realize that withholding was a part of the first income tax law after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment.
They complained to their representatives in Washington, and in 1917 a law was passed barring the practice of withholding taxes.
They saw that withholding was the one way they could camouflage the actual tax burden pressed on the American people and further their political dream of spreading the scope and power of the federal government.
There was still substantial taxpayer opposition to withholding, but the politicians eventually won even though they needed help from Donald Duck, among others, to pull off the victory.
While exhorting Americans to show their support for the war effort and our troops overseas by supporting an expansion of the scope of the income tax and tax withholding, politicians talked quite a different game behind closed doors and in the hearing rooms of Congress.