The required Social security and medicare taxes. Also known as the FICA taxes.
social insurance
no its not paid by employer
Many are paid in whole or part by the employer. FICA is split 50/50
The FICA rate of 15.30 % is paid half by the employer and half by the employee...or entirely by the taxpayer if self employed (or self employed income). However, what is considered fica taxable earnings is different than either your gross wage or even income taxable wages....ang you have to calculate it first.
FICA contributions, including various sub (categories of things like SS, Disability, Health, etc) are 15.30% of FICA wages. What is considered FICA wages differ from other wage considerations in many ways, (it has a top limit of about 97.5K, how pension contributions factored, State taxes, etc.). If you are an employee, the employer MUST pay half of the contribution. If your self - employed, the amount normally paid by the employer is collected through something called the "self employment tax" when you file your income tax return.
The FICA rate for employees of any business is 6.2% for the employee and 6.2% for the employer to each pay. The employee will have the tax withheld from their pay check and the employer will add their portion when a deposit is made monthly or more often depending on the amount owed by business. Some years ago the FICA (Social Security Tax) and Medicare Tax was separated. The Medicare tax is 1.45% for each the employer and employee in the same method. The only difference is that the Social Security tax is imposed on the the first $113,700 of income that an employee is paid during a calendar year and the Medicare tax is imposed on all income without a limit.
An employer matches the amount of FICA (Social Security) and Medicare taxes which are 6.2% and 1.45% of your gross income respectively. The same amount is paid by the employer and the employee toward these two taxes. Only the employee pays their Federal, State, and/or Local Income tax withholding but the employer is responsible for withholding these taxes and remitting all of them to the IRS on a timely basis.
The employee is essentially stealing wages from the employer because the employee is getting paid for not doing work for the employer.
One perspective is to includle all items that relate to labor...such as Employer costs incurred for employees' services. Payroll costs consist of the actual cash paid to the employees and the withheld amounts (liabilities) for employee's federal income taxes, FICA, and various voluntary health and benefit plans. Employer's payroll costs also consist of its matching share of employee's FICA taxes and contributions to the state and federal unemployment insurance programs.
FICA contributions, including various sub (categories of things like SS, Disability, Health, etc) are 15.30% of FICA wages. What is considered FICA wages differ from other wage considerations in many ways, (it has a top limit of about 97.5K, how pension contributions factored, State taxes, etc.). If you are an employee, the employer MUST pay half of the contribution. If your self - employed, the amount normally paid by the employer is collected through something called the "self employment tax" when you file your income tax return.
FICA contributions, including various sub (categories of things like SS, Disability, Health, etc) are 15.30% of FICA wages. What is considered FICA wages differ from other wage considerations in many ways, (it has a top limit of about 106,800, how pension contributions factored, State taxes, etc.). If you are an employee, the employer MUST pay half of the contribution so you pay 7.65% and the employer pays the same. If you're self-employed, the amount normally paid by the employer is collected through something called the "self employment tax" when you file your income tax return.