Enter the total salaries and wages for the tax year. Do not include salaries and wages deducted elsewhere on your return or amounts paid to yourself. Reduce your deduction by the amounts claimed on:
- Form 5884, Work Opportunity Credit, line 2;
- Form 8844, Empowerment Zone Employment Credit, line 2;
- Form 8845, Indian Employment Credit, line 4;
- and Form 8932, Credit for Employer Differential Wage Payments, line 2.
Do not reduce your deduction for any portion of a credit that was passed through to you from a pass-through entity.
If you provided taxable fringe benefits to your employees, such as personal use of a car, do not deduct as wages the amount applicable to depreciation and other expenses claimed elsewhere
In most cases, you are required to file Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, for each employee. See the General Instructions for Forms W-2 and W-3.