Answer to Question #169965 in Macroeconomics for joseph

Question

A tax rate schedule for the federal income tax is usually included with its instruction packet. Identify the MTRs associated with each tax bracket. Plot the MTRs associated with the taxable income in each tax bracket. Compute the ATR associated with the income corresponding to the beginning and end of each tax bracket. Plot the ATRs and MTRs associated with the ends of each tax bracket

Answer 1

The average tax rate (ATR) is the total amount of tax divided by total income.

The marginal tax rate (MTR) is the incremental tax paid on incremental income.