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What is Withholding?

Definition of Withholding

Used in the context of securities, the illegal practice of a public offering participant keeping some shares in a private account or with a family member, employee, or dealer to profit from the higher market price of a hot issue.Used in the context of taxes, the withholding by an employer of a certain amount of an employee's income in order to cover the employee's tax liability. Also used to refer to the withholding by corporations and financial institutions of a flat 10% of interest and dividend payments due to security holders.Withholding taxA tax levied by a country of source on income paid, usually on dividends remitted to the home country of the firm operating in a foreign country.
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