23-Jun-15
PRELIMINARY RESULTS
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Table T15-0067
Effective Marginal Tax Rates on Wages, Salaries, and Capital Income
By Expanded Cash Income Level, 2018 1
Expanded Cash
Income Level
(thousands of 2015
dollars)2
Less than 10
10-20
20-30
30-40
40-50
50-75
75-100
100-200
200-500
500-1,000
More than 1,000
All
Tax Units
(thousands)
14,436
25,141
22,741
16,045
13,357
24,181
16,514
28,453
10,793
1,356
761
175,149
Individual Income
Tax plus Payroll
Tax 4
Individual Income Tax3
Wages and
Salaries
-4.9
0.5
9.6
15.2
16.8
18.4
19.4
22.6
29.4
35.5
39.3
24.4
Long-term
Capital Gains
0.1
1.2
0.3
0.9
2.3
5.9
9.3
11.2
16.3
22.0
24.0
20.7
Qualified
Dividends
0.2
0.6
0.1
0.7
2.0
7.8
10.7
12.4
18.9
23.4
24.1
18.9
Interest
Income
Wages and
Salaries
0.3
4.1
3.1
6.1
9.5
18.9
21.5
23.3
30.9
36.9
38.3
27.7
8.8
14.3
23.5
29.0
30.4
32.0
33.1
34.7
36.5
39.9
43.2
34.5
Source: Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center Microsimulation Model (version 0515-1).
(1) Calendar year. Current Law. Effective marginal tax rates are weighted by the appropriate income source.
(2) Includes both filing and non-filing units but excludes those that are dependents of other tax units. Tax units with negative adjusted gross
income are excluded from their respective income class but are included in the totals. For a description of expanded cash income, see
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/TaxModel/income.cfm .
(3) We calculate each tax unit's effective marginal individual income tax rate by adding $1,000 to the income source and dividing the
resulting tax change by that $1,000. We then calculate the averages by weighting by the initial value of the appropriate income source.
(4) We calculate each tax unit's effective marginal individual plus payroll tax rate by adding $1,000 to wages and salaries. We then divide the
resulting change in individual income tax plus the resulting change in the employer and employee portions of payroll taxes for Social Security
and Medicare by that $1,000. We then calculate the averages by weighting by the initial value of wages and salaries. For married couples
filing jointly, we assign a portion of the $1,000 increase to each spouse based on their initial shares of the household's total wages and
salaries.