Effective tax rate and marginal tax bracket might seem like complicated tax terms, but they’re simply two different ways to express how much you pay in taxes. The main difference between marginal and ...

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 ...

Congress is placing greater reliance on Stealth Taxes to raise revenue, as I’ve warned taxpayers for years. That makes the tax code more confusing and causes taxpayers to fall into expensive traps.