Here's the change in the maximum
taxable earnings level for Social Security taxes in 2018:
Not exact matches
That was until 2006's «Halloween Surprise,» when then finance minister Jim Flaherty introduced a law to make those kinds of
earnings fully
taxable at the corporate
level, beginning in 2011.
If the Fund were to fail to comply with the income, diversification or distribution requirements, all of its
taxable income regardless of whether timely distributed to shareholders would be subject to corporate -
level tax and all of its distributions from
earnings and profits (including from net long - term capital gains) would be
taxable to shareholders as ordinary income.
However, once you earn above the
level of maximum
taxable earnings, the Social Security portion of this payment — 6.2 percent of your
earnings — vanishes.
Medicare tax continues to have no
level of maximum
taxable earnings in 2018, meaning all
earnings, no matter how high, face Medicare taxes.
have self - employed
earnings of $ 3,500 or more in the year and must make CPP contributions, even if your income is otherwise below
taxable levels;
Since the amount of income you pay Social Security tax on is limited (by the «maximum
taxable earnings»
level), the maximum amount you can earn in Social Security payments in retirement is also limited.