medicare tax

  • 1Medicare tax — A portion of the FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) tax that is 2.9% of an individual s net earned income. The employee s share of the Medicare tax is 1.45% of all wages. The employer s share of the Medicare tax is 1.45% of an employee s… …

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  • 2Medicare (United States) — President Johnson signing the Medicare amendment. Former President Harry S. Truman (seated) and his wife, Bess, are on the far right …

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  • 3Medicare Wages — An employee s earnings that are subject to a U.S. payroll tax known as the Medicare tax. Similar to the other U.S. payroll tax Social Security the Medicare tax is used to fund the government s Medicare program, which provides subsidized… …

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  • 4Medicare (Canada) — Medicare (French: assurance maladie) is the unofficial name for Canada s publicly funded universal health insurance system.[1] The formal terminology for the insurance system is provided by the Canada Health Act and the health insurance… …

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  • 5Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act — Acronym Medicare Modernization Act or MMA Citations Codification …

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  • 6Tax forms in the United States — are used by taxpayers and tax exempt organizations to report financial information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). They are used to report income and calculate taxes owed to the government of the United States. TOC Federal tax forms 990… …

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  • 7Tax bracket — Tax brackets are the divisions at which tax rates change in a progressive tax system (or an explicitly regressive tax system, although this is much rarer). Essentially, they are the cutoff values for taxable income mdash; income past a certain… …

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  • 8Medicare (Australia) — This article is about the Australian universal healthcare scheme. For the Australian Government health agency, see Medicare Australia. The official logo for the Medicare brand Medicare is Australia s publicly funded universal health care system,… …

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  • 9Medicare fraud — In the United States, Medicare fraud is a general term that refers to an individual or corporation that seeks to collect Medicare health care reimbursement under false pretenses. There are many different types of Medicare fraud, all of which have …

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  • 10Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate — The Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) is a method currently used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the United States to control spending by Medicare on physician services.[1] Enacted by the Balanced Budget Act of… …

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