{"id":1097,"date":"2013-01-01T13:52:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T17:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2016-11-22T18:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T22:16:06","slug":"2013-social-security-tax-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/payroll\/2013-social-security-tax-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Social Security Tax Rate is 6.2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For 2013, the employee tax rate for social security increases to 6.2%.<\/p>\n<p>The social security wage base limit increases to $113,700.<\/p>\n<p>The employer tax rate for social security remains unchanged at 6.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Employers should implement the 6.2% employee social security tax rate as soon as possible, but not later than February 15, 2013. After implementing the new 6.2% rate, employers should make an adjustment in a subsequent pay period to correct any under-withholding of social security tax as soon as possible, but not later than March 31, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Payroll Mate payroll software has been updated to include the new social security tax rates for 2013 and other payroll tax changes. Free trial can be downloaded from here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/payrollsoftware\/payroll_software.html\">http:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/payrollsoftware\/payroll_software.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/download-payroll-mate-payroll-software.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Payroll Mate - Payroll -Software\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/images\/Try-Payroll-Mate-Free.jpg\" alt=\"Payroll Mate Best Value in Payroll Software\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For 2013, the employee tax rate for social security increases to 6.2%. The social security wage base limit increases to $113,700. The employer tax rate for social security remains unchanged at 6.2%. Employers should implement the 6.2% employee social security tax rate as soon as possible, but not later than February 15, 2013. After &#8230; <a title=\"2013 Social Security Tax Rate is 6.2%\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/payroll\/2013-social-security-tax-rate\/\" aria-label=\"More on 2013 Social Security Tax Rate is 6.2%\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[168,169],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-payroll","tag-2013-social-security-tax-rate","tag-2013-social-security-wage-base"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}