The tax is not imposed on investment income such as interest and dividends. For 2014, the employee's share of the Social Security portion of the FICA tax is 6.2% of gross compensation up to a limit of $117,000 of gross compensation (resulting in a maximum Social Security tax of $7,254).he employer is also liable for 6.2% Social Security and 1.45% Medicare taxes, making the total Social Security tax 12.4% of wages and the total Medicare tax 2.9%.
Icefields and Glaciers. Glaciers, of all our alpine landforms, have had more visual impact on our landscape than any erosional agent, save water. Look around you, youll see smooth mountain bowls (cirques), wide mountain passes, broad. u-shaped valleys, Matterhorn style summits and sharp ridgesall legacies of the ice age.
Lendbreen, as I saw from below, is no glacier. It is tempting to think of all these melting sites as glaciers, and the field as âglacier archaeology,â but that is a bit of a misnomer. Ice patches like Lendbreen are more conducive to the preservation of ancient artifacts. Glaciers are like rivers of ice.