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Roundtable approves resolution on retirement issue
Missouri's Education Roundtable has approved a resolution calling on the Social Security Administration and other government entities to delay implementation of a decision that could have an impact on which school employees are required to pay social security taxes. As a result of an IRS audit of two Missouri school districts, the Social Security Administration has changed its position on which Missouri public school employees are exempt from paying social security taxes.
Currently any public school employee who is eligible for the Public School Retirement System is exempt from paying social security taxes. The new interpretation means thousands of Missouri educators will have to pay those taxes including some central office administrators, instructional aides, counselors, certificated transportation employees, certificated food service employees, certificated maintenance employees, certificated parent educators and others.
The Roundtable's resolution says the new SSA ruling creates numerous problems including the fact that there are no accounting systems in place to accommodate the change in retirement reporting in school districts and in the Public School Retirement System.
The Education Roundtable is made up of the Missouri Association of Elementary School Principals, the Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals, the Missouri Association of School Administrators, the Missouri Congress of Parents and Teachers (PTA), the Missouri Federation of Teachers and School-Related Personnel (AFT), the Missouri National Education Association, the Missouri School Boards' Association, and the Missouri State Teachers Association. The group is chaired by MSBA.
Posted: 11/5/2008
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