On a tax-equivalent basis, the munis were paying 5.7% for folks in the 30% tax bracket.
How much you pay depends on your tax bracket and where lawmakers set the benchmark.
Their income would push them into a tax bracket where they could not afford it.
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Then they realized that even kids from wealthy households could be in the lowest tax bracket.
One is to move income from the parent's high tax bracket to the child's lower one.
No great harm here, assuming her tax bracket is at least as high as yours.
The bond's appreciation is taxed at the individual's tax bracket, again for most top executives 56%.
The lowest tax bracket was also cut -- from 15 percent to 10 percent.
He is in the 28% tax bracket in 2011 because he is subject to the AMT.
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Then at age 70 he will be in the 28% tax bracket at most.
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You are in a high tax bracket and must hold bonds outside your retirement accounts.
Since this tax bracket applied to very very few, the economic destruction was small.
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David Gracey, 45, expects to be in the highest personal tax bracket this year.
Politicians in Annapolis created a millionaire tax bracket, raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 6.25%.
The new rules will apply to more people than just those in the 50% tax bracket.
Expiration of the 10 percent tax bracket will raise taxes on everyone with taxable income.
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That includes the Bush middle class tax cut reducing the 28% tax bracket to 25%.
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Let's assume, for simplicity, that your tax bracket (including state rates) is and always will be 40%.
Today, these tax breaks are worth 35 cents on the dollar for someone in the top tax bracket.
Defer taxes for too long and you might miss opportunities to realize income in a lower tax bracket.
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Paying young family members, then, moves income out of your high tax bracket and into their low bracket.
The marginal tax rate is the rate paid on the taxable income, in the highest tax bracket.
After all, for those in the top tax bracket, the tax would increase by a whopping 24 .6%.
Because he will be in the 28% tax bracket next year anyway, this conversion has a hurdle of 0%.
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However, most tools will use the marginal rate of your highest tax bracket rather than your effective tax rate.
Not even the most fervent of redistributionists is talking at the moment about a 100% tax bracket for millionaires.
It leads to tax bracket creep for individuals increasing their tax rates in addition to the total tax amount.
In the top federal tax bracket, that plum-looking yield shrinks to around 5%.
The zombies howl that the top federal tax bracket is still "only" 40%.
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