Not exact matches
The Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act
of 1990 (OBRA90): This act increased excise and
payroll taxes, added a 31 percent income
tax bracket, and introduced temporary high - income phase - outs for personal exemptions and itemized deductions.
For those in the CRA's higher
tax brackets, income
tax and government
payroll deductions represent a huge chunk
of total spending.
To illustrate, let's take a look at three employees, Angelica, Eliza and Peggy, whose employment income falls into the lowest, middle and top federal
tax brackets and see what their take home pay looks like for their first
payroll of 2016 versus what it would have looked like a year ago.
Note that the effective marginal
tax rates (28.1 percent for the worker in the 15 percent income -
tax bracket and 37.4 percent for the worker in 25 percent income -
tax bracket) are less than the sum
of the income
tax and
payroll tax rates (30.3 percent and 40.3 percent, respectively) because those rates are applied to compensation after the employer's share
of payroll taxes has been deducted.
When you move into a lower
tax bracket in retirement due to a combination
of no longer paying
payroll taxes, no longer paying a mortgage, and only withdrawing what you need rather than what you can earn, the 10 % extra
tax can be easily offset.
A carbon
tax of $ 100 / ton would raise way over $ 100 billion, allowing real cuts in
payroll taxes or lower
bracket income
taxes etc..