Thatâs the key, and thatâs what we should be focusing on: how to get ourselves to spend less time online and more time out in the real world. Stuff like âjust donât go online!â or âdonât check your emailâ isnât really useful advice, so we wonât even go there.ou use Self Control to get your work done faster so that you can log off quicker and get back to the real world. For PC users, Freedom is a similar app. Establish Scheduled Breaks. Few can work straight through for eight hours without a break, and I donât think you should even try to attempt such a feat.
Different rates apply for these taxes. Social Security and Medicare Withholding Rates. The current tax rate for social security is 6.2% for the employer and 6.2% for the employee, or 12.4% total. The current rate for Medicare is 1.45% for the employer and 1.45% for the employee, or 2.9% total. Refer to Publication 15, (Circular E), Employer's Tax Guide, for more information; or Publication 51, (Circular A), Agricultural Employerâs Tax Guide, for agricultural employers.
How do you calculate the social security tax percentage? To calculate the social security tax percentage as of 2015, add the 6.2 percent rate for the employer and the 6.2 percent rate for the employee, which totals 12.4 percent of wages, states the Internal Revenue Service. Social Security tax has a wage base limit of $118,500 for 2015 earnings.