Your marginal tax rate is the highest income tax rate you’ll pay on your income. Because the U.S. has a progressive tax system, different tiers of your income are taxed at different rates. The ...

Effective tax rate is your average tax rate as a percentage of total income. Marginal tax rate is the tax on your highest dollar earned, not your total income. Historically, top marginal rates have ...

Many workers face a familiar fork in the road this year: pretax or Roth 401(k). What sounds simple can shape lifetime taxes. A lesser-known calculation, the break-even tax rate, is emerging as a ...

Here are the 2025 tax brackets, the ones that apply on the tax return you file in 2026: ◾ 37% for taxable income over ...