Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Payroll

1. A list of employees to be paid and the amount due to each of them. 2. The total compensation payable to a company's employees for one pay period.

padded-payroll rule

See FICTITIOUS-PAYEE RULE.

payroll tax

1 A tax payable by an employer based on its payroll (such as a social-security tax or an unemployment tax). 2. A tax collected by an employer from its employees' gross pay (such as an income tax or a social-security tax). See withholding tax.