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.
Employers generally have to withhold federal and state income tax from all employees' wages, based on what employees enter on their Form W-4. Income taxes are paid solely by the employees through these withholdings. Currently, the federal government levies a 12.4 percent tax for Social Security on up to $118,500 (increasing to $127,200 for 2017) of an employee's pay and a 2.9 percent tax for Medicare on all wages.