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2. Income tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Effective federal tax rates and average incomes for 2010 [17] Quintile Average income before taxes Effective individual income tax rate Effective payroll tax rate Combined effective income and payroll tax rate Total effective federal tax rate (includes corporate income and excise taxes) Lowest $24,100: −9.2%: 8.4%: −0.8%: 1.5% Second ...

3. Payroll tax - Wikipedia

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   Payroll tax. Payroll taxes are taxes imposed on employers or employees, and are usually calculated as a percentage of the salaries that employers pay their employees. [ 1 ] By law, some payroll taxes are the responsibility of the employee and others fall on the employer, but almost all economists agree that the true economic incidence of a ...

4. Taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Taxation in the United States. The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property, sales, capital gains, dividends, imports, estates and gifts, as well as various fees. In 2020, taxes collected by federal, state, and local governments ...

5. Bigger Paychecks in 2011: Most Taxpayers Benefit From Payroll ...

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   The first few paychecks of 2011 will be issued soon. If you think you see a few extra dollars in yours, you aren't mistaken: You're benefiting from the new payroll tax holiday. The payroll tax ...

6. Tax withholding in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Social Security tax is withheld from wages [9] at a flat rate of 6.2% (4.2% for 2011 and 2012 [10]). Wages paid above a fixed amount each year by any one employee are not subject to Social Security tax. For 2023, this wage maximum is $160,200. [11] Medicare tax of 1.45% is withheld from wages, with no maximum. [12] (This brings the total ...

7. Progressivity in United States income tax - Wikipedia

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   97%. Bottom 50%. Under $36,055. 11%. 3%. Progressivity in the income tax is accomplished mainly by establishing tax "brackets" - branches of income that are taxed at progressively higher rates. For example, for tax year 2006 an unmarried person with no dependents will pay 10% tax on the first $7,550 of taxable income.

8. Federal Insurance Contributions Act - Wikipedia

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   The Federal Insurance Contributions Act is a tax mechanism codified in Title 26, Subtitle C, Chapter 21 of the United States Code. [3] Social security benefits include old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI); Medicare provides hospital insurance benefits for the elderly. The amount that one pays in payroll taxes throughout one's ...

9. History of taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Congress enacted an income tax in October 1913 as part of the Revenue Act of 1913, levying a 1% tax on net personal incomes above $3,000, with a 6% surtax on incomes above $500,000. By 1918, the top rate of the income tax was increased to 77% (on income over $1,000,000, equivalent of $16,717,815 in 2018 dollars [24]).