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14 Nov 2023 » Visualizing tax rates 2023

This is a supplement to the marginal tax rate post, and an updated version of the 2020 tax rate visualization (adding 2023 tax information). The top chart computes and displays both single and married marginal taxes on employee income in California. The idea is to give a quick reference on the effective tax rate on additional income. All tax data is for 2023.

14 Nov 2023 » Marginal tax rates for 2023

As an update on the 2020 marginal tax rates, this grabs the latest 2023 tax information for California and the federal government. Again, you can get a quick reference for the effective tax rate on additional income. All tax data is for 2023. If you want to visualize tax rates across income levels, there’s a post for that as well.

15 Mar 2020 » Visualising tax rates across income levels

While the marginal tax rate post serves as a quick reference on how much tax you’ll pay on additional income, it doesn’t show the overall tax burden. This chart has a number of views to see the amount or percentage of income paid to taxes with varying levels of income. As usual, this chart is for California. If you’d like other states to be added, let me know.

14 Mar 2020 » Marginal tax rates for 2020

As an update on the old marginal tax rates, this computes and displays both single and married marginal taxes on employee income in California. The idea is to give a quick reference on the effective tax rate on additional income. All tax data is for 2020, except for California which hasn’t yet published new data (they index their thresholds for inflation each year).

19 Oct 2014 » Marginal tax rate in California (2014)

A coworker asked me what changed from the 2013 tax rates, so it’s time to do an update.