Sentences with phrase «employed individual taxpayers»

By Dan Wright (Principal at Clark Nuber), and Karlyn Kurokawa (Associate at Clark Nuber) Currently, all U.S. individual wage earners are subject to a 1.45 % Medicare tax on all of their wages and self - employed individual taxpayers are subject to 2.9 % tax on their «self - employment... Continue reading →

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Most find that the average taxpayer devotes little time to paying taxes, but that a small subset (many of them high - income and self - employed individuals) devotes much more.

These companies, which are often owned by or employ the same individuals, collaborate to pad their wallets at taxpayer expense.

Individuals, self - employed taxpayers, businesses, charities, and non-profits (and even paid professional tax preparers) can e-file taxes online for free if their adjusted gross income (AGI) is $ 57,000 or less.

Taxpayers 55 or older or disabled (or a surviving spouse or a survivor having an insurable interest in an individual who would have qualified for the exclusion during the year) can exclude as much as $ 6,000 if single ($ 12,000 if married) of taxable income from a pension, annuity, distributions from an IRA or self - employed retirement plan, deferred compensation or other retirement - plan benefits.

The adjustments — sometimes called above - the - line deductions because you can claim them whether or not you itemize deductions — include (among other things) deductible contributions to Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), SIMPLE and Keogh plans, contributions to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), job - related moving expenses, any penalty paid on early withdrawal of savings, the deduction for 50 percent of the self - employment tax paid by self - employed taxpayers, alimony payments, up to $ 2,500 of interest on higher education loans and certain qualifying college costs.