The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving FICA taxes on severance pay.  The case is between Quality Foods, who filed bankruptcy in 2001, and the Internal Revenue Service.  Quality Foods paid its workers a severance package and withheld FICA taxes.  Later, it filed for a tax refund claiming that severance pay was not subject to FICA taxes – the IRS disagreed.  Now the case will go before the US Supreme Court for a final determination.  The decision could ultimately affect programs such as Social Security and Medicare because both depend on FICA taxes for revenue.

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