The Economist will no doubt disapprove, as it keeps imprisoning us in brackets with the patronising (or her).
If you pay estimated taxes throughout the year, you may be more aware of the change in brackets.
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To avoid confusing ramblers, the old name will remain on maps in brackets.
But it could be an attractive option for some workers--like those in low tax brackets now who expect to be in higher brackets in the future.
The current version of the draft outcome document for the meeting is hundreds of pages long, with thousands of passages in brackets representing points of disagreement.
The program still identifies itself (in brackets) as IE 11, but it forgoes Microsoft's older identifier ("MSIE") and simply describes itself as being a browser that renders HTML in a similar way to Firefox's Gecko layout engine.
Capital gains and dividends would be tax-free for those in the bottom two tax brackets, taxed at 15 percent for those in the 25, 28, and 33 percent brackets, and taxed at 20 percent for those in the top two brackets.
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Indexing of brackets lowers tax bills by including more income in lower brackets.
About 18% of tax units are in the 25 and 28% brackets compared with less than 2% in the top two brackets according to the Tax Policy Center.
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But a selection committee of live people still ranks teams and puts them in tournament brackets.
Growth would lead to higher incomes, and higher incomes to more people in higher brackets.
And, when the special tax provision is a deduction or exclusion, the tax benefit is greater for those in higher brackets.
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At least through 2012, the long-term capital gains rate is 15% for taxpayers with ordinary income in tax brackets above 15%.
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For someone in the upper federal brackets living in a high-tax state, this can amount to a 40% or more government subsidy of borrowing costs.
All of the college basketball analysts had Georgetown in their brackets.
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Obama would limit the value of deductions and some exclusions to 28 percent (thus, people in higher brackets would lose some of the benefit of their deductions).
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Look at all this year's clutter in the brackets, run-of-the-mill conference losers: Arizona, Arkansas, Boston College, Duke, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan State, Purdue, Stanford, Texas Tech, Villanova, Virginia Tech.
Everyone in higher brackets gets a windfall.
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Consumers in these brackets are increasingly using cost-saving measures to save up as they face rising gas and grocery prices, as well as perceptions of increased instability in the job market, according to a recent study by SymphonyIRI Group.
Also, higher-income households are in higher tax brackets and therefore benefit more from deductibility, and people in more expensive homes have larger payments to deduct.
This is especially true for early retirees who are currently in lower income brackets because of a recent job loss or forced retirement, says Michael Eisenberg, a certified public accountant in Los Angeles.
There are a lot more people in the 25% and 28% tax brackets than in the higher ones.
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Disabled ex-manual workers are not generally in the highest income brackets, and may find accommodation easier to obtain in Hackney than in Chelsea.
Low-income women have abortion rates five times as high as women in higher income brackets.
Now they yield more, which should broaden the appeal to include taxpayers in lower tax brackets.
Class warriors eagerly compare the relative performance of wage earners in various income brackets over time.
The more significant cuts in the upper brackets will not happen for several years.
Critically, while Fiat and Chrysler have vastly different lineups, their target customers are in similar income brackets.
However, while the rate of negative equity is higher in younger age brackets, the delinquency rate is noticeably lower.
In flat-tax countries, taxpayers in the highest brackets move from consumption or tax-sheltered investments to more productive, taxable investments.
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