Question

Shutterstock/Rowpel.com Knowledge Check 01 Voluntary deductions from employee pay can include all of the following: (You may select more than one answer. Single click the box with the question mark to produce a check mark for a correct answer and double click the box with the question mark to empty the box for a wrong answer. Any boxes left with a question mark will be automatically graded as incorrect.)

a. Medicare taxes
b. Pension contributions
c. Life insurance premiums
d. Social Security taxes
e. Union dues

Answer 1

Answer: Pension contributions.

Life insurance premiums

Union dues.

Step-by-step explanation:

The employee is the one who decides if they want to pay Pension contributions, Life insurance premiums or Union dues as these are considered Voluntary deductions meaning that they have to elect for them to be subtracted from gross pay for it to actually happen. If they do not wish for them to be deducted it is their own prerogative.

Medicare Taxes and Social Security Taxes are however mandatory and have to be paid from employee salary.