Medicare surtax

Locos1969 — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:07:01 GMT

Why am I being charged an additional 0.9% medicare tax on my return if I pay a medicare surtax on my paycheck stub?

Re: Medicare surtax

JohnW222 — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:25:57 GMT

What you see on your paycheck stub is your employer withholding the money for the 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax, as it was required to do by law.

What you're seeing on your return is the assessment of that tax.

That's how it works -- it's similar to the normal withholding on your Form W-2 to help offset the tax on that income reported on your return.

Here, instead, this 0.9% withholding is designed to offset the 0.9% tax assessment on your return for Additional Medicare Tax, so as not to actually increase any tax burden come tax time.

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Medicare surtax

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