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In 2001, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act first created a new 10-percent regular income tax bracket for a portion of taxable income that was previously taxed at 15 percent. That law also reduced the other regular income tax rates. The otherwise applicable regular income tax rates of 28 percent, 31 percent, 36 percent and 39.6 percent were reduced to 25 percent, 28 percent, 33 percent, and 35 percent, respectively.
Under Section 101 of the new Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, And Job Creation Act of 2010, the law creates an extension of the taxable income brackets created almost a decade ago.
Generally, a taxpayer determines his or her tax liability by applying the tax rate schedules (or the tax tables) to his or her taxable income. The rate schedules are broken into several ranges of income, known as income brackets, and the marginal tax rate increases as a taxpayer’s income increases. Separate rate schedules apply based on an individual’s filing status.
Below are the new tax rate tables for those filing as single taxpayers, married filing jointly, as well as head of household.
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