A. Every employer making payment of wages shall deduct and withhold from the wages paid each employee a tax in an amount determined in accordance with a table fixing graduated rates of tax to be withheld, which table shall be devised by the Oklahoma Tax Commission and fix the rate of such tax to be withheld from each employee as a percentage of the amount of federal income tax withheld under the Internal Revenue Code, and/or a percentage of the amount of salary paid to the employee, giving consideration to the approximate amount of the state tax liability of any such employee, if such employee-taxpayer were to elect to use the standard deduction. Such table shall be published by the Oklahoma Tax Commission and furnished to all employers filing income withholding tax returns as required by law.

B. Whenever the amount to be withheld from the wages of an employee is calculated to total less than twenty-five cents ($0.25) in any quarterly period of a year, the provisions of subsection A of this section shall not apply.

C. Every person, including the government of the United States, a state or a political subdivision thereof or any instrumentalities of the foregoing, making any payment of winnings which are subject to withholding shall deduct and withhold from such payment a tax in an amount equal to four percent (4%) of such payment.

Added by Laws 1965, c. 530, § 2, emerg. eff. July 24, 1965. Renumbered from § 2331 by Laws 1971, c. 137, § 32, emerg. eff. May 11, 1971. Amended by Laws 1971, p. 1041, H.J.R. No. 1026, § 1, emerg. eff. June 22, 1971; Laws 1990, c. 339, § 8, emerg. eff. May 31, 1990; Laws 1994, c. 278, § 30, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.