 Income tax 2021-2022, social security benefits. Get ready to get refunds to the max, diving into income tax 2021-2022. Here we are in our income tax formula. We're looking at the top line, that being the income line. This is the first page of the 1040. We're looking at line six, six A being the social security benefits, total six B being the taxable amount. Quick recap of the social security in general. When you hear social security, you wanna think about what side of the coin are we talking about? Are you talking about the point in time during your work in years, when you're paying into social security? If you're a W-2 employee, it's being pulled out of your wages with payroll taxes, for example. And if you're self-employed, then you pay it in self-employment tax. We'll talk about that later. Or are we talking about the time after our work in years, when we're receiving the social security, that's what we're looking at at this point because we're looking at income and whether or not, now that you're.