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What is the difference between marginal and average tax rates?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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What is the difference between marginal and average tax rates?

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Average tax rates measure tax burden, while marginal tax rates measure the impact of taxes on incentives to earn, save, invest, or spend.

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How should distributional tables be interpreted?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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How should distributional tables be interpreted?

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Distributional tables provide important and useful information, but keep six key questions in mind to correctly interpret the results.

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How should progressivity be measured?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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How should progressivity be measured?

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A broad definition of progressivity, that tax burdens rise with household income, masks a host of ambiguities in measuring the effect of a tax change. The percentage change in after-tax income is the most reliable measure of the progressivity of such a change.

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