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Determining Taxable Amount. If your base income exceeds the limit for your filing group, you'll have to pay taxes on some of your Social Security benefits. If you're a single filer and your base income is between $25,000 and $34,000, you'll have to pay tax on up to 50 percent of your Social Security benefits.
Thatâs because, if your âcombined incomeâ is in the applicable range, each additional dollar of income is not only taxed at your regular tax rate, it also causes an additional $0.50 or $0.85 of Social Security benefits to be taxable. Depending on how high your âcombined incomeâ is in a given year, your Social Security benefits could be nontaxable or partially taxable (with a maximum of 85% of them being included in your taxable income for the year).