The payroll taxes, which help fund Medicare and Social Security, will be due between January and April, 2021. Many organizations chose not to defer the taxes because of implementation challenges and because the plan required them to pay back taxes, even if they weren’t able to collect them from employees, according to Forbes.
Seventy employers confirmed to Forbes that they’re skipping the payroll tax deferral option. Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University, Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health and Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Medical Center opted out.
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