Write-In Candidates running for President in 2016. List Of candidates running for the office of the President Of The United States who have filed Form 2 with the Federal Election Commission. Each individual who is a candidate for federal office must file an FEC Form 2 within 15 days of becoming a candidate.
How the Social Security payroll tax works now. The Social Security payroll tax rate is currently 6.2%, although it's not quite that simple. First of all, not all wages are subject to Social Security tax. As of 2016, only the first $118,500 is used to calculate Social Security tax -- anything above that amount is ignored. In other words, a worker who earns $118,500 per year pays the same Social Security tax as a worker who earns $1,000,000.
3. Multiply the employee rate by the employee's wages to find the amount the company must withhold from the employee's paycheck for Social Security taxes. For example, if the employee's monthly pay equals $3,170, multiply $3,710 by 0.042 to find the company must withhold $133.14 for Social Security taxes. 4. Multiply the employer rate by the employee's pay to find the amount the company must pay to the government in employer Social Security taxes because of the payment to the employee. In this example, multiply 0.062 by $3,170 to find the company has to pay $196.54 in employer Social Security taxes.