Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate
See W-4 FORM.
Withholding
, n. 1. The practice of deducting a certain amount from a person's salary, wages, dividends, winnings, or other income, usu. for tax purposes; esp., an employer's practice of taking out a portion of an employee's gross earnings and paying that portion to the government for income-tax and social-security purposes. 2. The money so deducted. - withhold, ub.
income-tax withholding
See WITHHOLDING.
income-withholding order
A court order providing for the withholding of a person's income, usu. to enforce a child-support order.
interstate income-withholding order
A court order entered to enforce a support order of a court of another state by withholding income of the defaulting person.
withholding of evidence
The act or an instance of obstructing justice by stifling or suppressing evidence knowing that it is being sought in an official investigation or a judicial proceeding. See OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
withholding tax
A portion of income tax that is deducted from salary, wages, dividends, or other income before the earner receives payment. ( The most common example is the income tax and social-security tax withheld by an employer from an employee's pay.
withholding tax withholding tax.
See TAX.