Analysis of Major Characters. Jean Louise âScoutâ Finch-The narrator and protagonist of the story. Scout lives with her father, Atticus, her brother, Jem, and their black cook, Calpurnia, in Maycomb. She is intelligent and, by the standards of her time and place, a tomboy.
1 The maximum social security tax employees and employers will each pay in 2016 is $7,347.00 per employee (unchanged from 2015). 2  Domestic employees. 3  The threshold for coverage under social security and Medicare for domestic employees will be $1,900 in 2015 (unchanged from 2014). 4  Election workers.
FICA taxes are somewhat unique in that there is required withholding from an employee's wages as well as an employer's portion of the taxes that must be paid. The Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) is the federal law that requires you to withhold three separate taxes from the wages you pay your employees. FICA is comprised of: 1  a 6.2 percent Social Security tax; 2  a 1.45 percent Medicare tax (the âregularâ Medicare tax); and. 3  beginning in 2013, a 0.9 percent Medicare surtax when the employee earns over $200,000.