The Russian president takes the crown from U.S. President Barack Obama, who has been on top every time except 2010, when Chinese president Hu Jintao briefly took his place. Let's begin by saying this: The list is right, Putin is clearly the most powerful person in the world right now. However, the Forbes list shouldn't be a shock â it's correcting itself.
MEDI is the Medicare tax withheld for contributions to the social insurance system better known as Medicare insurance. It is calculated at 1.45% of gross wages minus pre-tax deductions such as family medical and dental premiums. There is no limit on wages on which the tax is calculated. more.
Your employee's share is also 7.65% (6.2% for social security tax and 1.45% for Medicare tax). In addition to withholding Medicare tax at 1.45%, you must withhold a 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax from wages you pay to an employee in excess of $200,000 in a calendar year.f you pay your household employee cash wages of $1,900 or more in 2014, all cash wages you pay to that employee in 2014 (regardless of when the wages were earned) up to $117,000 are social security wages and all cash wages are Medicare wages.