Self-employed individuals will figure their 2020 self-employment tax (Schedule SE) by applying the Social Security tax rate of 12.4% (6.2% employer share plus 6.2% employee share) to their first $137,700 of net earnings, but this is after the net earnings are reduced by 7.65%. All wages...
Paying Social Security tax is a time-honored tradition—since 1937, to be exact. Both employers and employees pay the tax. But when an employee hits the Social Security wage base, it’s game over for withholding and contributing the tax. Although the Social Security tax rate generally does...
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 ...
The Social Security cap does not apply to payroll tax deductions for Medicare hospital insurance, which is assessed at a 1.45% rate for employees and employers, and at a 2.9% rate for the self-employed.1 The annual cap increases are not intended to address the big Social Security shortfalls...
The Social Security Administration has announced the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase for 2021.
From 2015 to 2021, the social security rate in South Korea reached its highest point in 2021, hitting 19.24 percent.
In 2023, the trust funds earned an effective interest rate of 2.4%, while the average of the 12 monthly rates for the debt they purchased that year was 4.1%. In May 2024, the interest rate for new special issue debt bought by the Social Security trust funds was 4.750%.78 ...
The combined employer-employee social security tax rate is 36% in Spain, 40% in Italy and 65% in France. Value-added taxes in most European economies are around 20%. There simply aren’t enough rich to finance their entitlements. Amen. I’ve repeatedly warned that a European-sized welfare...
Robert J. Myers
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