The Real US Tax Burden – Revised
by Jeremy on Jul.02, 2009, under Politics
The following is a fairly comprehensive paper on the total tax burden to the average US taxpayer. This includes federal, state, local, and excise taxes. This is, in effect, a best case scenario for taxation. Bare that in mind when the numbers and figures start to hit you.
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The Real US Tax Burden by Jeremy Sands is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at www.jeremysands.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.jeremysands.com.
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2 comments for this entry:
March 5th, 2010 on 3:11 pm
[...] March 5, 2010 by ghost35 Many times, when people speak of thier tax burden they are speaking simply in terms of income tax (federal and, where applicable, state). Many people do not take into account the “real” cost of taxes involved in thier day-to-day lives. When accounting for sales tax, gasoline tax, property tax, “sin” taxes (for some), telephone taxes, cable tv taxes, etc., etc.; our “real” tax burden is upwards of 50% of our income. [...]
June 15th, 2010 on 7:05 pm
Hi cheers for the above cool entry.