what percent for payroll taxes
Payroll taxes are regressive: low- and moderate-income taxpayers pay more of their incomes in payroll tax than do high-income people, on average. The bottom fifth of households paid an average of 6.6 percent of their incomes in payroll tax in 2014, according to Tax Policy Center estimates, while the top fifth paid 5.9 percent and the top 1 percent of households paid just 2.3 percent. These figures includes the employer and employee shares of the payroll tax.