Republican-backed legislation approved Thursday morning by House lawmakers includes a number of tax breaks ... President Ronald Reagan introduced taxes on Social Security income above a certain ...

Republican-backed legislation approved Thursday morning by House lawmakers includes a number of tax breaks ... President Ronald Reagan introduced taxes on Social Security income above a certain ...

Income tax on Social Security benefits for individuals earning over $25,000 began under President Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan in 1983 to help cover the shortfall in the Social Security trust ...

Currently, up to 85 percent of Social Security benefits can be subject to federal income tax, depending on total income. Some 40 percent of benefit recipients currently pay federal income taxes on ...

In 1983, with Social Security's asset reserves virtually exhausted, a bipartisan Congress passed, and then-President Ronald Reagan ... to the federal tax rate when provisional income (adjusted ...

The income tax on Social Security benefits should not be repealed. In fact, it should remain. In 1984, the tax was introduced in an effort to fix the program’s finances. Currently, about 27 ...

The Social Security trust ... law by then-President Ronald Reagan. The program's last sweeping bipartisan overhaul gradually increased the payroll tax on earned income and the full retirement ...

The income tax on Social Security benefits should not be repealed. In fact, it should remain. In 1984, the tax was introduced in an effort to fix the program’s finances. Currently, about 27 ...

But this alternative to “no tax on Social Security” would leave many people still paying income taxes on Social Security benefits.

With pressure from Alan Greenspan and a Democrat controlled Congress, President Ronald Reagan signed a 1983 bill to approve income tax on up to 50% of Social Security benefits for those earning ...