The website for the Oklahoma Tax Commission http://www.oktax.state.ok.us/ has everything you need to file your state taxes if you live in Oklahoma, including online income tax filing, 2007 downloadable state income tax forms, state sales tax information, proposed tax rules for 2008, information for tax preparers and professional, and new business and development workshops.

The Oklahoma Tax Commission website also lists employment opportunities and job postings, including current openings for seasonal tax workers. You can check the status of your state refund if you are expecting one with an easy-to-use feature that will tell you if yours has been mailed or when to expect it by direct deposit.

Oklahoma’s Quick Tax online filing system also allows small businesses to file and pay a variety of business taxes online, including sales tax, withholding tax, non-resident withholding tax, use tax for vendors, use tax for consumers, waste tire taxes, mixed beverage taxes, and quarterly estimated state taxes for self-employed persons.

Hot link to various tax assistance sites are also available at the site. Some of the links posted are for Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA), Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE), Assistance for Military Personnel and their Families, and a downloadable list of Oklahoma tax assistance sites by city.

Also posted at the Oklahoma Tax Commission website are the 2008 Oklahoma Tax Commission Withholding Tables for individuals and businesses. This document includes plenty of useful information such as how to compute your 2008 withholding, and how to set up payroll withholding for single or married persons for weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, and annual payroll.

Withholding of state tax in Oklahoma is required for any but the following: services paid for an employee in connection to farm activities when the amount paid is less than $900 per month; domestic services in a private home, local college, club, or local chapter of a fraternity or sorority; service not in the course of an employer’s trade or business performed in any calendar quarter by an employee unless the cash remuneration paid for such services is over $200; services performed in the state by a person who is not a “resident individual” and whose income in a quarter is not more than $300; and services performed by a duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister of a church in the exercise of his ministry or by a member of a religious order in the exercise of duties required by that order.

Everyone else who works for money in the state of Oklahoma is required to have taxes withheld from his or her paychecks. Monthly figures on the collection and disbursement of Oklahoma sales taxes by month to various cities throughout the state are also posted at the tax commission website. A new business registration packet is available for download at the site and includes: business registration workshop information, bond information, registration forms, tax information, and information and instructions on how to apply for a federal employer tax identification number.