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Payroll taxes

Payroll taxes, such as Social Security and Medicare, are not included in federal individual income taxes

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Jan 23, 2026
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How do IRA withdrawals and Roth conversions affect combined income for Social Security taxation?

Traditional IRA withdrawals and can materially change the “combined” or provisional income that determines whether Social Security benefits are taxable: ordinary taxable distributions and the taxable ...

Jan 6, 2026
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How should employers report supplemental wages like bonuses and overtime on Form W-2?

Supplemental wages — bonuses, overtime, commissions, reported tips and similar irregular payments — are taxed and reported like regular wages on Form W‑2 but have special withholding rules employers c...

Jan 25, 2026

What was the 2021 Treasury proposal to report bank inflows/outflows and what happened to it?

The proposal sought to create a broad annual reporting regime of gross bank account inflows and outflows to help the detect unreported income, originally targeting accounts with more than $600 in annu...

Jan 6, 2026

How do safe-harbor rules differ for high-income taxpayers (1% alternative) in 2025?

For 2025 the federal “safe harbor” for estimated tax remains a two-path system: pay either 90% of current-year tax or the prior-year safe harbor, which is generally 100% of the prior year’s tax but ri...

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