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The top marginal tax rate on income of 39.6%, provided for under the expiration of the 2001 portion of the Bush tax cuts, was retained. This was an increase from the 2003–2012 rate of 35%. [3] The top marginal tax rate on long-term capital gains of 20%, provided for under the expiration of the 2003 portion of the Bush tax cuts, was retained.
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In addition, legislation was passed to extend a cut in the Social Security payroll tax for the entirety of calendar year 2012. The government was initially funded through five temporary continuing resolutions. Final funding for the government was enacted as an omnibus spending bill, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012, on December 23, 2011.
The original bill passed the House 234-193 on December 13, 2011, and the Senate unanimously on December 17, 2011. On December 23, 2011, the House and Senate passed H.R. 3765, also called the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011, and President Obama signed it the same day.
Signed into law Dec. 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) -- informally known as the Trump tax cuts -- contained a number of changes to individual tax rates that are set to expire after 2025....
In the first year the changes were implemented, the average federal tax rate fell from 20.8% to 19.3% for all filers, according to the conservative Tax Foundation.
In 2012, during the fiscal cliff, Obama overcame the sunset provisions and made the tax cuts permanent for single people earning less than $400,000 per year and couples making less than $450,000 per year, but did not stop the sunset provisions from applying to higher incomes, under the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. Before the tax cuts ...
Those income tax cuts resulted in a 1% to 4% reduction in all but the lowest of the seven tax brackets imposed under the current IRS regime. If Congress does not pass a law to extend the reduction ...