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 Continental Congress did not officially adopt the flag shown in the painting until June 14, 1777, but according to tradition, Betsy Ross is said to have completed one of this design in late May or early June of 1776 at the request of George Washington and two other members of the Congress.