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Email Downsizing is a fact of life in the recent U.S. economy. Over the past several decades, employers have involuntarily terminated large numbers of employees and made severance payments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars to the departing workers. The Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") and courts agree that severance payments are income to the employees and subject to federal income tax. However, the employment tax statutes, FICA for non-railroad employees and RRTA for railroad employees, impose employer and employee taxation on only one subset of "income": "wages" under FICA and "compensation" under RRTA, both of which are generally defined as remuneration received for services rendered. https://www.cadwalader.com/resources/clients-friends-memos/the-sixth-circuit-rules-in-united-states-v-quality-stores-inc