the top marginal tax rate in every year and b) the share of total income taxes collected from the top one-half percent of taxpayers. As the chart above shows, the share of taxes collected from ...

The widow(er ... tax bracket as a single taxpayer. That would require the income to be cut in half. Instead, the surviving spouse loses some income but also pays a higher income tax rate ...

And lest you think Greenberg is misrepresenting anything, here’s Piketty & co.’s own graph (rates on rich folks are shown in green). There are a few obvious reasons why the taxes the rich ...

Almost a decade ago, Warren Buffett made a claim that would become famous. He said that he paid a lower tax rate than his secretary, thanks to the many loopholes and deductions that benefit the ...

Here are two graphs of the top 0.1% and 0.01%. The first shows average tax rates since 1945 -- down, down, down. The second shows share of total income since 1945 -- up, up, up. In short ...

Today's maximum capital gains tax rates are considerably lower than they were decades ago. Don't look now, America, but it's time to don your thinking cap, grab your W-2s, and collect those 1099 ...

This chart maps overall rates paid at static income points, and salaries have of course risen since 1990. Between 1999-2000 and 2014-15 alone, median nominal pre-tax incomes rose 58 per cent to £ ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This post has a simple purpose: to remind people of the ...

Ahead of the emergency Budget, or summer Budget, this graph, which we first published ... it reveals the “marginal” rates of tax paid as a household’s income rises. It assumes a family ...