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It is neither, tax exempt OR income. Qualifies as a foolish question
No. FICA is a straight percentage of salary or wages. The employee Social Security portion (6.2%) stops after the employye reaches the maximum salary ($102,000 in 2008). The employee Medicare portion (1.45%) does not have a miximum.
An employee with a employer would have 7.65% withheld from from gross earnings. 21899.77 X .0765 = 1675.33 social security and medicare taxes.
Medicare is withheld from virtually all earnings.
They will take the money for the medicare payment out of your Socialized Security check.
An employee completes a Form W4, Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate, when the employee is first hired, or whenever they want to change their income tax withholding.
Anyone who properly reports their name and Social Security number while using the Form W-9, whose information matches IRS records, and those who have not been noticed by the IRS that they are exempt from backup withholding are exempt from backup withholding.
the GPP itself are exempt for withholding tax but if the income payment are payable direct to the members of the GPP then it is subject to withholdinbg tax.. The GPP is not a taxable entity because its member are taxable individually, so the gpp are exempt from withholding..
An S-Corp is exempt from backup withholding on a W9 form. The backup withholding box on the W9 form is required for individual taxpayers and not businesses or corporations.