On the next line, you'll see «Return After Taxes on Distributions,» which shows what the fund's after - tax return would have been for an individual in
the top federal tax bracket.
If you combine
the top Federal tax bracket (39.6 %) with the top California tax bracket (13.3 %) and the Medicare surcharge of.9 % on incomes over $ 250,000, you have a top tax rate of 51.9 %.
Admittedly, it takes a rather mundane $ 135,055 of individual annual income to make it into
the top federal tax bracket in Canada, as opposed to more than US$ 400,000 in the U.S. Taxpayers who fall below that U.S. threshold are, generally speaking, better off south of the border.
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.
Not exact matches
Having said that, the capital gain rates are pretty low, so we're historically, when you look at capital gain rates — Jackie could probably talk to this even more historically — but if you're not in the
top marginal
tax bracket, your
federal rate is 15 %.
A six per cent increase to the
top federal income
tax bracket, for example, might bring in $ 1 or $ 2 billion per year — not nearly enough to compensate millions of middle - earners with stagnating wages.
They are therefore eligible for qualified
federal dividend
tax rates — 15 % for most investors, and 23.8 % for the
top bracket of earners.
Compounding the problem, President Trump and congressional Republicans aim to eliminate or curtail state and local
tax deductions to help pay for
federal income -
tax rate cuts in
top brackets.
Compare that to someone in the
top tax bracket making over $ 220,000 a year in Ontario, at which the combined
federal / provincial
tax rate is 53.53 %.
You might be in the 25 % marginal
tax bracket for
federal income
taxes, but on
top of this you might add, say 7 % for state income
taxes, 7.65 % for FICA, and say, 2 % for municipal income
taxes, for a total marginal
tax rate of 41.65 %.
This rate includes the current
top -
bracket Federal rate, State
taxes of 5.1 %, FICA
taxes of 2.35 %, and the Pease Amendment Surtax of 1.2 %.
Then they can use cash flow for annual contributions to their RRSPs in amounts sufficient to push their
tax bill down to the
top of the first
federal bracket, currently about $ 46,000, Moran suggests.
The Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 eliminated some of the changes in the 1986
tax act and added two new
federal income
tax brackets to the existing three, with the
top rate hitting 39.6 %.
But if you're in one of the
top federal income
tax brackets and live in a state with high income
taxes, you may come out ahead with a
tax - free fund.
For instance, if you expect to be in the 22 %
federal tax bracket once you start required minimum distributions in your 70s, you might aim to generate enough income in your 60s to get to the
top of the 12 %
bracket.
Speaking to investment income, a NJ taxpayer in the
top tax bracket in all categories pays 39.6 % in Federal tax, 8.97 % in direct NJ State Tax and Obamacare 3.8 % tax on investment income (muni bonds are exemp
tax bracket in all categories pays 39.6 % in
Federal tax, 8.97 % in direct NJ State Tax and Obamacare 3.8 % tax on investment income (muni bonds are exemp
tax, 8.97 % in direct NJ State
Tax and Obamacare 3.8 % tax on investment income (muni bonds are exemp
Tax and Obamacare 3.8 %
tax on investment income (muni bonds are exemp
tax on investment income (muni bonds are exempt).
Between
federal and provincial
tax changes, the combined marginal
tax rate for Albertans in the
top bracket is rising to 48 per cent in 2016, from 40.25 per cent last year.
Depending on your
federal tax bracket, ordinary income
tax rates can be as high as 37 percent whereas capital gains
tax rates
top out at 20 percent.