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There is no lower limit. You pay from dollar one.

And just to clarify - the employer does NOT pay federal income tax on pay to an employee. He "withholds" income tax from the amount of pay he gives the employee (that is an estimate of what will be paid by the employee at tax filing according to the W-4 provided by the employee), and sends that to the IRS. Other than the cost of doing so, it costs the employer nothing.

In fact, the entire reported payroll for the employee is probably the most acceptable tax deduction for the employer that there is!

There may well be other payroll taxes or fee's - like FICA or unemployment, etc that he employer does pay out of his own funds.

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