Is this the tax I will pay?

No. It is the amount of your benefits that is added to your taxable income. The tax on it depends on your bracket and everything else on the return.

What is combined income?

Your other income, including tax-exempt interest, plus half of your Social Security benefits. It is the figure the thresholds are measured against.

How much of a year's benefits is counted as taxable income, from your other income and the thresholds the IRS publishes.

Social Security for the year

All other income for the year

Pensions, withdrawals, wages and interest, including tax-exempt interest.

Filing status

Enter the thresholds to see a result. The fields start empty because these are the government’s figures to publish, not ours, and we have not yet checked them against the source ourselves. They are on IRS — Publication 915, Social Security and equivalent railroad retirement benefits.

Combined income where benefits start to count

For your filing status, in IRS Publication 915.

Combined income where the higher share starts

The same publication.

Share counted between the two

The same publication.

Share counted above, and the most that can be

The same publication.

Is this the tax I will pay?: No. It is the amount of your benefits that is added to your taxable income. The tax on it depends on your bracket and everything else on the return.
What is combined income?: Your other income, including tax-exempt interest, plus half of your Social Security benefits. It is the figure the thresholds are measured against.

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