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Effective Income Tax Rates Have Fallen For The Top One Percent Since World War II

For the individual income tax, effective tax rates — measured as federal income tax divided by adjusted gross income (AGI) —have fallen significantly over the...
January 6, 2020Robert McClellandNikhita Airi
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Corporate Tax Reform: Not All About the Rates

About last year’s inversion rush… The US corporate tax rate, highest among industrialized nations at 35 percent, was driving companies to switch mailing addresses in return for lower tax rates, right? Not so fast. A Reuters analysis finds that the taxes paid by the six largest inversion-seeking
February 10, 2015Renu Zaretsky
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Why Investors Pay Less Tax than the Rest of Us

After I wrote last week about Warren Buffett’s New York Times op-ed on the low tax rates paid by wealthy investors, Tax Policy Center visiting...
August 31, 2011Roberton C. Williams