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- From: markr@mot.com (Mark)
- Subject: Re: Middle-class salary range (and taxes)
- Reply-To: markr@mcil.comm.mot.com
- Organization: MCIL
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 04:59:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.045934.12056@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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- In article <1992Jul20.221957.21495@tandem.com> Brady_David@Tandem.Com (David Brady) writes:
- >Thanks for backing me up on this.
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- >Also, the first $25,000 (or so) of your income is taxed at one rate.
- >Everything after that is taxed at a higher rate.
- >
- >A simple example (details left out!): I
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- >f I make $30,000 and S.O. is making $20,000...
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- >Single : ($45,000 * lower rate) + ( $5,000 * higher rate) = much lower taxes
- >Married: ($25,000 * lower rate) + ($25,000 * higher rate) = much higher taxes
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- Of course, this is not quite right. The higher tax bracket for married people
- begins at a higher income than for single people. (though probably not higher
- enough)
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- In your example :
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- Single: (45,000 at lower rate) + (5,000 at higher rate)
- Married: (42,000 at lower rate) + (8,000 at higher rate)
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- Assuming the higher rate kicks in for married people at $42K. (I don't know
- what the current numbers are, I am extrapolating from three years ago)
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- Mark
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