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Congressional Budget Office on The Taxation of Social Security Benefits
February 12, 2015 – By Joshua Shakin and Kurt Seibert – About 60 million people received Social Security benefits in 2014, CBO estimates. Up to 85 percent of a recipient’s benefits are subject to the individual income tax, depending on the recipient’s overall income. CBO estimates that income taxes on Social Security benefits totaled $51 billion in 2014, an amount that will be credited to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds after the tax returns for 2014 have been filed and analyzed. (CBO expects that those taxes will account for only about 4 percent of the tax revenues received by those trust funds, which receive the other 96 percent of their tax revenues from payroll taxes…Read More