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Summary Measures and Graphs
Payroll Taxes (including maximum taxable)

Description of Proposed Provision:
Eliminate the taxable maximum in years 2021 and later. Phase in elimination by taxing all earnings above the current-law taxable maximum at: 2.48 percent in 2017, 4.96 percent in 2018, and so on, up to 12.40 percent in 2021. Provide benefit credit for earnings above the current-law taxable maximum that are subject to the payroll tax, using a secondary PIA formula. This secondary PIA formula involves: (1) an "AIME+" derived from annual earnings from each year after 2016 that were in excess of that year's current-law taxable maximum; and (2) a formula factor of 5 percent on this newly computed "AIME+".

Estimates based on the intermediate assumptions of the 2015 Trustees Report

Summary Measures
Present Law
[percent of payroll]		 Change from present law
[percent of payroll]		 Shortfall Eliminated
Long-range
actuarial
balance		 Annual
balance in
75th year		 Long-range
actuarial
balance		 Annual
balance in
75th year		 Long-range
actuarial
balance		 Annual
balance in
75th year
-2.68 -4.65 2.09 2.16 78% 46%


graph of OASDI cost rates and income rates by year, under present law and provision. click on graph to view underlying data. graph of OASDI trust fund ratio by year, under present law and provision. click on graph to view underlying data.
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