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Kentucky Payroll Tax and Labor Laws
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Did you know that out-of-state employers may voluntarily withhold Kentucky tax from the wages paid to a Kentucky resident who is working outside of Kentucky?
Kentucky Wage and Hour Laws
Employees covered by Kentucky's minimum wage law must be paid $7.25 an hour. If the federal minimum wage increases, the state minimum wage will increase by the same amount.
All employees are covered except for:
- agricultural workers;
- employees of retail stores, hotels, motels, and restaurants with average annual sales of less than $95,000 for the preceding five years;
- individuals employed by a third party or agency that provides in-home companionship services for a sick, convalescing or elderly person; and
- certain emergency employees.
Kentucky Payroll for Employers
Taxable Wage Base ($000s): 11,100
New Employer Rate (% Taxable Wages) 2.625 or 8.925
Kentucky Income Tax Withholding
Kentucky's law requires employers to withhold state income tax from employees' wages and remit the amounts withheld to the Department of Revenue.
Any employer required to withhold federal income taxes is also required to withhold Kentucky income taxes, including agricultural employers. Certain corporate officers and officers of limited liability companies are held personally liable for taxes that are required to be withheld from wages paid to employees of the corporation.
Under reciprocal tax agreements, residents of certain states who work in Kentucky are not subject to withholding of Kentucky income tax if these states grant an exemption from the withholding of their income tax to Kentucky residents who earn income in these states. Kentucky has entered into such agreements with Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. In addition, employees who reside in Virginia and commute daily to employment in Kentucky, or who reside in Kentucky and work daily in Virginia, are not subject to Kentucky withholding. Reciprocal agreements may vary from year to year as state laws change.
Kentucky Benefits
Kentucky Voting Rights:
Pay Deduction for Voting Time Leave Time Off with Pay Limited to 4 Hours
Employees must be granted up to four hours of leave to vote or to apply for an absentee ballot. Employees selected to be election officers must be granted an entire day to attend training or serve as election officers.
Employers can specify the hours voting time leave may be taken.
Kentucky State Tax Resources
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