https://community.squareup.com/t5/Staff-Payroll/quot-Debits-by-IRS-for-Taxes-quot/m-p/635246#M1748 <P>Hello <a href="https://community.squareup.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/315187">@exetercoffeeco</a>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Yes, that's normal. Unfortunately.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Employee Social Security and Employee Medicare are the amounts withheld from your team's paychecks. As business owners, we then get the luxury of paying those same amounts <EM>again.</EM> That's what the Employer lines are for.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Gotta love the IRS... <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":neutral_face:">😐</span></P> Tue, 07 Feb 2023 01:50:32 GMT ryanwanner 2023-02-07T01:50:32Z https://community.squareup.com/t5/Staff-Payroll/quot-Debits-by-IRS-for-Taxes-quot/m-p/635202#M1747 <P>I've never understood why (every payroll) there are duplicate line-items for Social Security and Medicare. &nbsp;Is this normal? &nbsp;Please help!</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2023-02-06 at 2.18.39 PM.png" style="width: 857px;"><img src="https://community.squareup.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/35564iB23320C9655F29C0/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2023-02-06 at 2.18.39 PM.png" alt="Screenshot 2023-02-06 at 2.18.39 PM.png" /></span></P> Sun, 21 Sep 2025 06:39:03 GMT https://community.squareup.com/t5/Staff-Payroll/quot-Debits-by-IRS-for-Taxes-quot/m-p/635202#M1747 exetercoffeeco 2025-09-21T06:39:03Z https://community.squareup.com/t5/Staff-Payroll/quot-Debits-by-IRS-for-Taxes-quot/m-p/635246#M1748 <P>Hello <a href="https://community.squareup.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/315187">@exetercoffeeco</a>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Yes, that's normal. Unfortunately.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Employee Social Security and Employee Medicare are the amounts withheld from your team's paychecks. As business owners, we then get the luxury of paying those same amounts <EM>again.</EM> That's what the Employer lines are for.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Gotta love the IRS... <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":neutral_face:">😐</span></P> Tue, 07 Feb 2023 01:50:32 GMT https://community.squareup.com/t5/Staff-Payroll/quot-Debits-by-IRS-for-Taxes-quot/m-p/635246#M1748 ryanwanner 2023-02-07T01:50:32Z