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DATE: THURSDAY, April 29, 1993                   TAG: 9304290031
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-9   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

PANEL OKS RAISING LEVEL FOR HOME WORKER TAXES

A House subcommittee voted Wednesday to change a widely ignored law that requires household employers to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for every baby sitter, gardener or housekeeper who earns more than $50 in three months.

The law, which doomed Zoe Baird's nomination for attorney general, would be changed to require employers to pay Social Security taxes if they paid their domestic workers at least $1,750 this year and $1,800 in 1994.

Starting in 1995, the threshold would be raised annually based on increases in average wages, according to the plan adopted by the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security.

Under other measures expected to be approved, domestic employers would be allowed to pay Social Security taxes for their workers on their own income tax returns, instead of filing the taxes quarterly. - Associated Press 


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