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The taxation of Social Security benefits for the tax year 2026, including how filing status and standard deductions affect taxability
A narrow set of incomes and circumstances are exempt from the Social Security payroll tax in 2026: earnings above the annual taxable maximum are not subject to the 6.2% OASDI payroll tax, certain grou...
Provisional income — also called combined income — is the IRS construct used to decide whether and how much of a person’s Social Security benefits are taxable, and it is calculated by adding one-half ...
Publication 915’s Worksheet A is the IRS’s stepwise calculator that determines whether any portion of Social Security (or equivalent Tier 1 railroad) benefits is taxable by combining half of the benef...
ITINs are a tax-processing tool the IRS uses to bring people without eligible Social Security numbers into the tax system, which changes observable compliance patterns because ITIN filers face differe...
Provisional income for 2026 Social Security taxation is the sum of adjusted gross income (AGI), tax‑exempt interest, and one‑half of Social Security benefits; anything that raises AGI — including taxa...