High earners pay Social Security on only a portion of their incomes. Their Social Security withholding stops for the year when their incomes hit a certain threshold known as thewage base. This limit changes every year to keep pace with inflation. The 2024 limit for paying FICA taxes is $168...
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Whencalculating payroll, employers must remember to stop withholding Social Security taxes on any wages that exceed the $160,200 Social Security tax cap. As the Social Security tax cap is $160,200 of gross earnings and the social security tax rate is 6.2%, employees will have a maximum of ...
For more information, seeDo You Stop Paying Taxes on Social Security at a Certain Age? 3. You can ask for Social Security withholding (Image credit: Getty Images) If you are worried about owing taxes on your Social Security benefits, you can choose to havefederal taxes withheld from your ...
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In 2025, the social security tax withholding rate remains unchanged at 6.2% for both employees and employers. For those self-employed, the rate is 12.4% because they have no employer to split the tax with. However, the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program sets a ...
A self-employed person is both the employee and the employer for Social Security purposes, so you're responsible for withholding 12.4% in Social Security taxes from your earnings if you're self-employed. You must contribute both the employer’s portion of Social Security (6.2%) and your own...
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SSA also supports the administration of Medicare through a variety of activities, such as processing enrollment for most parts of the program, as well as determining and withholding premiums from Social Security benefit payments for applicable Medicare beneficiaries. Although benefit payments for SSA’...