Tag: 2011 payroll tax cut

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In January 2011, employees across America experienced a cut in their payroll tax from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent on their earnings up to the Social Security maximum ($106,800).  (The self-employed saw their tax go from 12.4 percent to 10.4 percent.)  The cut is supposed to expire at the end of the year.  In t…