{"id":82,"date":"2008-01-15T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T00:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/01\/15\/self-employment-income-and-us-taxes\/"},"modified":"2019-04-26T20:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:55:33","slug":"self-employment-income-and-us-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/self-employment-income-and-us-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-employment income and US taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Jan 15th, and Q4 2007 estimated tax payments are due (in the US).\u00a0 If you&#8217;re self-employed, you estimate your tax liability during the year and make &#8220;withholding&#8221; payments (4) along the way.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re self-employed, you have the privilege of paying two additional taxes (on top of income tax): \u00a0 self-employment tax (12.4%) and Medicare (2.9%).\u00a0\u00a0 The SE tax phases out at $94,000, but the Medicare tax applies to your entire self employed income. Find out more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laborlawcc.com\/new-york-labor-law-posters-state-and-federal-combo.html\">https:\/\/www.laborlawcc.com\/new-york-labor-law-posters-state-and-federal-combo.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re consulting, keep in mind when setting your rates that your marginal tax rate (combined state and federal) may be <strong>over <\/strong>50%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Jan 15th, and Q4 2007 estimated tax payments are due (in the US).\u00a0 If you&#8217;re self-employed, you estimate your tax liability during the year and make &#8220;withholding&#8221; payments (4) along the way. If you&#8217;re self-employed, you have the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/self-employment-income-and-us-taxes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}