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  2. Tax policy and economic inequality in the United States

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    This is known as the capital gains tax rate on a short-term capital gains. Accordingly, the capital gains tax rate for short-term capital gains paid by an individual is equal to the marginal income tax rate of that individual. The tax rate then decreases once the capital gain becomes a long-term capital gain, or is held for 1 year or more. In ...

  3. Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001

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    The maximum estate tax, gift tax, and generation-skipping tax rate, which was 55% in 2001 (with an additional 5% for estates over $10,000,000 in order to eliminate the benefit of the lower estate tax brackets) was reduced to 50% in 2002, with an additional 1% reduction each year until 2007, when the top estate tax rate became 45%.

  4. Hall income tax - Wikipedia

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    The Hall income tax was a Tennessee state tax on interest and dividend income from investments. [1] It was the only tax on personal income in Tennessee, which did not levy a general state income tax. The tax rate prior to 2016 was 6 percent, applied to all taxable interest and dividend income over $1250 per person ($2500 for married couples ...

  5. Taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The thousand-page Tax Reform Act of 1986 significantly lowered tax rates, adopted sweeping expansions of international rules, eliminated the lower individual tax rate for capital gains, added significant inventory accounting rules, and made substantial other expansions of the law. Federal income tax rates have been modified frequently.

  6. Predicted effects of the FairTax - Wikipedia

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    The Fair Tax Act (H.R. 25/S. 122) is a bill in the United States Congress for changing tax laws to replace the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and all federal income taxes (including Alternative Minimum Tax), payroll taxes (including Social Security and Medicare taxes), corporate taxes, capital gains taxes, gift taxes, and estate taxes with a national retail sales tax, to be levied once at the ...

  7. Capital gains tax - Wikipedia

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    Capital gains taxes were abolished in Kenya in 1985 to spur growth in the securities and property market. The Kenyan Parliament passed a motion in August 2014 to reintroduce capital gains tax in January 2015 [45] and "is expected to increase the cost of land transaction as investors pass on the cost to buyers. The tax will also affect those ...

  8. List of countries by tax rates - Wikipedia

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    Individual income tax VAT or GST or Sales tax Capital gains tax [1] Inheritance/Estate Tax Further reading Lowest marginal rate Highest marginal rate Afghanistan: 20% [2] 0% [3] 20% [3] 0% [4] However, in Taliban run areas pre-Taliban rule, small fees were illegally added to some groceries. [5] Taxation in Afghanistan Albania: 15% [6] 0% [7] 23 ...

  9. Income tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal, State, and Local income tax as a percent GDP Federal income, payroll, and tariff tax history Taxes revenue by source chart history US Capital Gains Taxes history In 1913, the top tax rate was 7% on incomes above $500,000 (equivalent to $15.4 million [ 97 ] in 2023 dollars) and a total of $28.3 million was collected.