Students starting summer jobs
School is already out for the summer at North and South Summit High Schools, while Park City High School students will be out this coming week. Many will be ditching the books and replacing them with time-cards issued by local employers.
Despite the absence from the classroom, learning doesn’t need to go dormant for local working students. Students starting summer jobs have the opportunity to learn real-world lessons that can serve them in the future as well as their diploma.
According to Bill Brunson, Internal Revenue Service media relations in a press release, summer jobs offer students the opportunity to learn about the working world, and taxes.
Here are six things about summer jobs that the IRS wants students to know.
If you do not meet these conditions and you are under age 18, then you are usually exempt from Social Security and Medicare tax.
For more information about income tax withholding and employment taxes, visit http://www.irs.gov .
compiled by Cole Fullmer
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