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Asked 2/18/2009

Do employees pay social security tax on the amounts contributed?

Is Social Security assessed on the gross income or the gross less the 401K contributions? If the contributions are not subject to SS taxes, then the employers SS tax would be reduced by the same amount, Right?

 
 
 
 
 
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