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For the 1964 tax year, the top marginal tax rate for individuals was lowered to 77%, and then to 70% for tax years 1965 through 1981. In 1978 income brackets were adjusted for inflation, so fewer people were taxed at high rates. [ 40 ]
There's a common belief that wealthy Americans were heavily taxed in the 1950s, with a top income tax rate of 91%. But was this the case? Let’s breakdown what was happening with taxes back then.
In a May 20, 2008 editorial by David Ranson, the Wall St. Journal published a graph showing that even though the top marginal tax rate of federal income tax had varied between a low of 28% to a high of 91%, between 1950 and 2007, federal tax revenues had remained close to 19.5% of GDP. [3] The editorial went on to say,
CBO Median Income Tax Rates CBO Data Shares of Market Income and Net Federal Taxes, By Income Group, 2010 CBO Data Shares of Market Income and Net Federal Taxes, By Income Group, 2010 - 99% and 1%. As of 2010, there were 118.7 million taxpaying households in the United States. [6] The median marginal federal income tax rate is 15%. [7]
The Revenue Act of 1950 raised the minimum income tax to 20% and raised the top rate to an incredible 91% in order to pay for the Korean War. ... If today’s rich people complain that the wealthy ...
Tax rates were 3% on income exceeding $600 and less than $10,000, and 5% on income exceeding $10,000. [8] This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in the Revenue Act of 1862. [9] After the war when the need for federal revenues decreased, Congress (in the Revenue Act of 1870) let the tax law expire in 1873. [10]
The highest marginal tax rate for individuals for U.S. federal income tax purposes for tax years 1952 and 1953 was 92%. [100] From 1964 to 2013, the threshold for paying top income tax rate has generally been between $200,000 and $400,000 (unadjusted for inflation).
The figures show a decrease in the total effective tax rate from 37.0% in 1979 to 29% in 1989. The effective individual income tax rate dropped from 21.8% to 19.9% in 1989. However, by 2010, the top 1 percent of all households an average federal tax rate of 29.4 percent, with 2013 rates to be significantly higher. [47]