• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    11 天前

    This is actually not true as it doesn’t take into account the standard deduction

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      11 天前

      Read the chart, it says taxable income.

      Deductions and other tax games may lower you’re taxable income, but the progressive tax brackets apply this way to all taxable income.

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      11 天前

      It does not take into account a lot of things, namely the many many deductions for qualifying individuals.

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      Not all people take the standard deduction, this is true before all deductions and similar economic stimuli.