Can you get tax returns on social security and medicare taxes that are witheld?

Question

Can one get tax returns on social security and medicare taxes that are witheld just like you get refunds for federal and state taxes that are witheld?

Answer 1

Not unless you overpaid, which is very rare. Instead you collect it when you retire.

Answer 2

You mean a refund of those taxes, right? (A tax return is the paper you file with the IRS.) You can get a refund of excess SS taxes if your combined wages exceed the SS wage ceiling for the tax year in question. Medicare taxes are levied on all earned income so there's never a refund due there.

If an employer over-withheld you have to ask them to refund the excess.