He figures his marginal tax rate now is lower than it will be in the future.
At a 50% marginal tax rate, the producer can keep only half of any increased production.
In 1998, rich Americans faced a marginal tax rate on dividends of over 46%.
Next year in California the effective top marginal tax rate on corporate dividends rises to 74%.
U.S. neighbor, Canada, imposes a marginal tax rate of 31.2% on its labor force.
If they felt their marginal tax rate had fallen, people might be inclined to work more.
Long-term capital gains are taxed at 15% and short term at your regular marginal tax rate.
The marginal tax rate is the rate paid on the taxable income, in the highest tax bracket.
Republicans rammed through Bush's big marginal tax rate cuts in 2001 with a bit of sleight of hand.
They ignore the fact that there is a difference between your marginal tax rate and your effective tax rate.
When Ronald Reagan entered office, the top marginal tax rate was 70 percent.
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Reagan stood for across-the-board marginal tax rate cuts and a strong dollar policy.
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The average U.S. top combined state-federal marginal tax rate would hit about 52%.
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Cooperman asked Gore what he thought the top marginal tax rate should be.
Currently, the highest marginal tax rate for the federal income tax is 35%.
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It found that even a 100% marginal tax rate on Indian earnings would only plug 20% of its aggregate poverty gap.
When President Reagan famously said government was the problem in the 1980s, the highest marginal tax rate was around 70 percent.
The marginal tax rate is the rate on the next dollar to be earned from any investment, enterprise or productive activity.
Add in state taxes of 5 percent (on average in many states), and the top marginal tax rate is 50 percent.
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So the new law increases the tax incentive to give by raising his marginal tax rate (and making deductions more valuable).
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This marginal tax rate is typically higher than capital gains tax rates.
That would spike up the top marginal tax rate, demolishing supply-side tax principles that Republican administrations have purportedly followed for 26 years.
My marginal tax rate jumps in 2011, about 30% more than before.
Throw in state and local taxes that nowadays add up to more than 9% and you could have a confiscatory marginal tax rate.
Marginal tax rate cuts might bring needed new stimulus to the economy, but in most cases probably at the expense of deficit reduction.
Australia imposes a 31.5% marginal tax rate on workers, and has performed throughout the recent recession better than most other economically developed countries.
In addition, the effective marginal tax rate on labor income would rise from about 28 percent now to about 36 percent in 2037.
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You trumpet that your secretary pays a much higher marginal tax rate than you do as some sort of meaningful, no revelational, data point.
If you are persuaded that productivity thrives with a lower marginal tax rate, you will agree this approach can help grow the economy and reduce unemployment.
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As discussed in my column last week, Reagan reduced the top marginal tax rate from 70% when he entered office, all the way down to 28%.
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