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What is NYC AC § 11-1908?

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This section mandates that employers in New York City withhold a tax from employees' wages, ensuring that the withheld amount approximates the employee's annual tax liability. The regulations for determining the withholding amount are set by the commissioner. Applies to employers conducting business within the state.

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§ 11-1908 Withholding of tax on wages.

AC § 11-1908

On or after the first payroll period beginning August twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred sixty-six, every employer maintaining an office or transacting business within this state and making payment of any wages taxable under this chapter shall deduct and withhold from such wages for each payroll period a tax computed in such manner as to result, so far as practicable, in withholding from the employee's wages during each calendar year an amount substantially equivalent to the tax reasonably estimated to be due from the employee under this chapter. The method of determining the amount to be withheld shall be prescribed by regulations of the commissioner.

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