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Which Earnings Are Taxable in 2024?
The following types of payments made by the United Nations to staff members during the calendar year 2024 are included in the statement of taxable earnings for: Gross Salary – Before deduction of staff assessment. Overtime…
Calculation of Taxable portion of Lump Sum Pension
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Reimbursement of taxes
Deadlines for submission of requests for reimbursement of taxes Staff serving in the U.S. - 1st working day of March Staff serving elsewhere - 1st working day of April Copies of tax returns and related United Nations forms…
2024 Tax Filing Tips
Report UN taxable earnings (the total amount from Statement of Taxable Earnings - STE) on Line 1a, page 1 of IRS Form 1040 as W-2 income. Calculate Social Security & Medicare Tax commonly known as Self Employment tax or SE…
Important Deadlines of 2025 (For 2024 Income tax Reimbursement)
Events US Based Staff Overseas Staff Q4 Advance of 2024 15 January 2025 15 January 2025 Statement of Taxable Earnings (STE, equivalent to W2 or 1099) Will be distributed to all staff by email. 31 January 2025 31 January 2025…
2024 Filing Requirements
We strongly encourage staff members to submit their 2024 tax claim as 1 PDF file, including all the UN forms as one file upload to the UN Tax Portal ‘ taxportal.un.org’ in the following order. Should an error occur, contact…
Course: United Nations Tax Procedure for US Taxpayers
We are happy to announce the launch of our new course: United Nations Tax Procedure for US Taxpayers on the CDOTS campus. Learners can self-register the course using this online guide. CDOTS Campus: Sign-up and enroll in the…
2024 and 2025 Self-Employment Tax
Self-Employment Tax contains Social Security Tax and Medicare Tax. Employee’s portion of Social Security Tax for 2023 was 6.2%. The maximum wages and earnings subject to social security tax is $ 168,600 for 2024 and it…
Tax-Meet
To ease the process of setting up meetings with a member of the Income Tax Unit, we are excited to launch Virtual Tax Meet, a self-service scheduling tool. Virtual Tax Meet will allow you to schedule a virtual 20-minute…
Advance Payment of the Child Tax Credit from IRS
Haven't Received Your Advance Payment of the Child Tax Credit Issued to You Yet? There’s limited time to have the IRS trace a missing Advance Child Tax Credit payment. Form 3911 submission to IRS
