Tax Around the World: USA January 1, 2006
To begin 2006, I’d like to start off with a series of posts titled “Tax Brackets Around the World”. Since I live in the USA, I’ll start with the US tax brackets. Every so often, I’ll post information about taxation in other parts of the world. The more we learn about our neighboring countries and other countries around the world, it will help me (and hopefully you) a little about how we live compared to others. I hope there will be readers from other countries to teach us about their personal finance strategies and how we can all benefit from ideas elsewhere.
As we know, tax brackets are the divisions at which tax rates change in a progressive tax system (or an explicitly regressive tax system, although this is much rarer). There are cutoff values for taxable income — income past a certain point will be taxed at a higher rate. In a flat tax system, everyone is in the same tax bracket, and all of their income is taxed at the same rate, no matter how high their income may be.
2006 USA Federal Tax Brackets
| Marginal Rate |
Single | Married Filing Jointly |
Head of Household |
Married Filing Separately |
| 10% | 0 - 7,550 |
0 - 15,100 |
0 - 10,750 |
0 - 7,550 |
| 15% | 7,550 - 30,650 |
15,100 - 61,300 |
10,750 - 41,050 |
7,550 - 30,650 |
| 25% | 30,650 - 74,200 | 61,300 - 123,700 |
41,050 - 106,000 |
30,650 - 61,850 |
| 28% | 74,200 - 154,800 |
123,700- 188,450 | 106,000 - 171,650 |
61,850 - 94,225 |
| 33% | 154,800 - 336,550 | 188,450 - 336,550 | 171,650 - 336,550 | 94,225 - 168,275 |
| 35% | over 336,550 | over 336,550 | over 336,550 | over 168,275 |
These rates don’t include local and state income tax. So where are you and will you be going to the next bracket this year?
- Posted in : Tax Brackets Around the World, USA Federal Tax Info
- Author : Kyle
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Don’t forget good old FICA. I.e. 7.5% or whatever it is these days and that’s not tiered. You pay that into the 100k range so that effectively bumps all of the federal tax brackets up by 7.5% if employed by a company.