In a mixed tenure development, owned and rented homes share the same locality as a matter of planning. history. A recognisable prescription for a mix of housing can be traced to the Victorian reformer Octavia Hill.ixed tenure as a specific approach may be said to have come of age during the 1990s, and it is now firmly embedded in government strategy. philosophy. Mixed tenure is intended to do two things.
As part of the health care reform legislation passed under the Affordable Care Act, the employee portion of the FICA Medicare payroll tax rate for high income earners will increase by .9% beginning in 2013. The employer portion of the Medicare tax will remain unchanged at 1.45%. The FICA tax is made up of the Social Security tax and the Medicare tax. The Social Security portion of the FICA payroll tax is currently 6.2% for employers and 4.2% for employees (calculated on the first $110,100 in wages in 2012).
Medicare taxes are imposed at a flat tax rate of 2.9% on wages, salaries, and business or farming income earned by self-employed individuals. 1  There's no limit on the amount wages subject to Medicare taxes, unlike the annual wage limit for Social Security taxes. The Medicare hospital insurance tax is paid half by employees through payroll deductions and half by the employer. Accordingly, employees pay a Medicare tax rate of 1.45% (half of the 2.9% rate). Self-employed persons pay both halves of the Medicare tax since they are both the employee and the employer.