Taylor Tepper covered banking, investing and pretty much everything else in personal finance for more than a decade, with his work appearing in the New York Times, Fortune and MONEY magazine, as well ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

Each year, the IRS adjusts federal income brackets and thresholds, and capital gains taxes are no exception. Whether you hold stock, real estate, or other capital assets, knowing the correct long-term ...

Calculating federal tax deductions and withholdings can be complicated without the help of a tax deduction calculator or payroll software. However, once you understand the required forms and methods ...

As an employer, you must calculate the Social Security, Medicare and income taxes to withhold from your employees for each payroll you process. Each employee contributes half the Social Security and ...