They are all US centric, tax related items. Briefly: W2 - Document that shows what an employer paid an employee, as well as how much in taxes were already withheld from the employees paycheck. See also IRS and SSA...
1099 - Document that shows (in this context) what a company paid a person who is working as a contractor for them SSA - Social Security Administration, a government entity that for the purposes of this discussion collects employment taxes to be used to pay out retirement benefits later. Mentioned here because employer and employee each pay half the tax, a contractor would have to pay both the employer and employee portions. IRS - Internal Revenue Service, a government entity that collects taxes on behalf of the US government. Note: accepted that these are overly simplified definitions..... Tom Chicklon -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Systems Programmer job posting Out of curiosity: what is - W2 - 1099 - SSA (see Gary's mail) - IRS BTW: What is avg (yearly) salary in U.S.A. ? BTW2: IMHO every job is better than no job. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 0000025237 NIP: 526-021-50-88 Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2007 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci opacony) wynosi 118.064.140 z. W zwizku z realizacj warunkowego podwyszenia kapitau zakadowego, na podstawie uchwa XVI WZ z dnia 21.05.2003 r., kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA moe ulec podwyszeniu do kwoty 118.760.528 z. Akcje w podwyszonym kapitale zakadowym bd w caoci opacone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
