In January of 2013 nearly every worker in the country saw their payroll tax increase by 2.0 percentage points. The … payroll tax holiday that had been put in place at the start of 2011 ended in December of 2012, leading to a jump in the Social … Security tax from 10.4 percent to 12.4 percent of earnings up to the taxable limit. This was an extraordinarily large increase …

On January 1st, the maximum amount of annual earnings subject to the Social Security tax – a.k.a. the payroll tax cap … how many workers would be affected if the Social Security payroll tax cap were raised or phased out. We find that the …) and 0.7 percent (1 in 140) would be affected if the tax were applied to earnings over $250,000 and $400,000, respectively …

maximum amount of earnings that are subject to the Social Security payroll tax. In 2014, that cap is set at $117,000 per year … available American Community Survey to ascertain how many workers would be affected if the Social Security payroll tax cap were …

The United States is the only high-income country that does not mandate paid family and medical leave. Instead American …

exempted from the tax, since the fact that future sales will be subject to the tax will lower the price of stocks sold in the …