The tax is not imposed on investment income such as interest and dividends. For 2014, the employee's share of the Social Security portion of the FICA tax is 6.2% of gross compensation up to a limit of $117,000 of gross compensation (resulting in a maximum Social Security tax of $7,254).he employer is also liable for 6.2% Social Security and 1.45% Medicare taxes, making the total Social Security tax 12.4% of wages and the total Medicare tax 2.9%.
The ice also flows down valleys extending from the icefield, pulled by gravity just as river water is, but much more slowly, moving downhill between 15 m and 125 m a year. In the. Athabasca Glacier, a snowflake requires 150â200 years to go. from fluttering out of the sky onto the icefield to melting out at the.
Glaciers and glacial erosion. A glacier is mass of land ice so large that it flows downhill under its own weight. Glaciers develop in cool, wet areas where at least some of the snow that falls during one winter does not melt or evaporate by the next. Masses of snow and ice typically accumulate at the upper ends of valleys on peaks like Mount Shasta and, when the become thick enough, flow down these valleys as glaciers (Figure 10) .