Here are a few common pre-tax payroll deductions: Contributions to 401(k) plans can be pre-tax deductions. There are yearly limits on such contributions; for more information, please refer to the IRS. Employers administering the plan can set a lower limit for employees.
It was white with a green pine tree and the motto An Appeal to Heaven and was adopted in April, 1776. Since flags at that time were all naval ensigns (the cloth things on poles carried by soldiers on land were standards, not flags), Massachusetts was the first to adopt a state flag.
The 1776 naval flag law was never repealed and, according to the 1780 Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (oldest constitution still in effect in the world) those old laws (enacted prior to the Commonwealth's constitution) remained in effect until superseded.