President Joe Biden said the “average tax” for billionaires is “about 3%,” which is “a lower tax than a schoolteacher or a firefighter.' These figures are wrong on several levels.
By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2023
Households with adjusted gross incomes from $50,000 to $100,000 paid an effective tax rate ranging from 5% to 15%,Some of those households even paid an effective overall rate below 5%, or paid nothing at all or got money back from the government. However, Watson said this tactic"could be tackled more directly in the tax code without requiring a complicated minimum tax" like the one Biden is proposing.Steven M. Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center.
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