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The amount a person can earn before he has to pay taxes on his social security income depends on how much he grosses. For a single person or a person filing as head as household, the gross amount he can earn before his social security benefits are taxable is $25,000. Married couples have a slightly higher rate. A married couple can earn $32,000 before the couple has to pay taxes on his social security. If he has more than one income, he still has to pay taxes on his base income, provided his base income is above $8000 for an employed person and $600 for a business.
The OASDI tax rate for self-employment income in 2017 is 12.4 percent. For Medicare's Hospital Insurance (HI) program, the taxable maximum was the same as that for the OASDI program for 1966-1990. Separate HI taxable maximums of $125,000, $130,200, and $135,000 were applicable in 1991-93, respectively.