Economic research
on employer payroll taxes finds that their ultimate burden is shifted over several years to employees — via slower growth in wages and salaries.
Replacing income taxes with
am employer payroll tax, leaving Washington, not Albany, on the hook for billions of dollars in lost revenue, might sound good, but the idea floated by the governor is already running headlong into a barrage of practical questions about how precisely such a switcheroo might work.
And — this part is crucial —
employer payroll taxes are still deductible under federal law.
But her bill would establish a national insurance fund paid for through employee and
employer payroll taxes.
Thus, for example, if the employer increases compensation by $ 1,000, cash wages only increase by $ 929 [calculated as $ 1,000 / (1 +
employer payroll tax rate)-RSB-, because the employer would have to pay additional employer payroll taxes of $ 71.
Employer payroll taxes are extra payments that any future employer is going to have to pay Joe; these add on top of Joe's gross salary and increase the total cost of keeping him employed.