Write-In Candidates running for President in 2016. List Of candidates running for the office of the President Of The United States who have filed Form 2 with the Federal Election Commission. Each individual who is a candidate for federal office must file an FEC Form 2 within 15 days of becoming a candidate.
How the Social Security payroll tax works now. The Social Security payroll tax rate is currently 6.2%, although it's not quite that simple. First of all, not all wages are subject to Social Security tax. As of 2016, only the first $118,500 is used to calculate Social Security tax -- anything above that amount is ignored. In other words, a worker who earns $118,500 per year pays the same Social Security tax as a worker who earns $1,000,000.
Payroll taxes, paid by wage-earners as well as employers, go to fund the Social Security retirement system. If you're self-employed, you pay into the system with self-employment taxes, calculated on your federal return.The Social Security Administration provides an easy way to check a current estimate of your retirement benefit, and find out how much you've paid in over the years.ocial Security makes information on your accumulated payments available on a Benefit Statement. At one time, the agency mailed out these statements every year to all workers with a record of covered earnings, meaning those who had contributed payroll or self-employment taxes to the Social Security trust fund.