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  2. Income tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As of 2010, 68.8% of federal individual tax receipts, including payroll taxes, were paid by the top 20% of taxpayers by income group, which earned 50% of all household income. The top 1%, which took home 19.3%, paid 24.2% whereas the bottom 20% paid 0.4% due to deductions and the earned income tax credit.

  3. Tax withholding - Wikipedia

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    e. Tax withholding, also known as tax retention, pay-as-you-earn tax or tax deduction at source, is income tax paid to the government by the payer of the income rather than by the recipient of the income. The tax is thus withheld or deducted from the income due to the recipient. In most jurisdictions, tax withholding applies to employment ...

  4. 2018 United States elections - Wikipedia

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    The 2018 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. These midterm elections occurred during Incumbent Republican President Donald Trump's term. Although the Republican Party increased its majority in the Senate, unified Republican control of Congress and the White House was brought to an end when the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives in what was ...

  5. How your tax bracket could change under the Senate's ... - AOL

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    The brackets proposed are 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35%, and 38.5%. About 70% of Americans claim the standard deduction when filing their taxes, and their paychecks will almost certainly increase ...

  6. 2018 United States federal budget - Wikipedia

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    GDP. $20.236 trillion [1] Website. Official website containing the 2018 budget. ‹ 2017. 2019 ›. The United States federal budget for fiscal year 2018, which ran from October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018, was named America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again. It was the first budget proposed by newly elected president ...

  7. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act - Wikipedia

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    The Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 115–97 (text), is a congressional revenue act of the United States originally introduced in Congress as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), that amended the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

  8. Taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The federal income tax enacted in 1913 included corporate and individual income taxes. It defined income using language from prior laws, incorporated in the Sixteenth Amendment, as "all income from whatever source derived". The tax allowed deductions for business expenses, but few non-business deductions.

  9. Taxation of illegal income in the United States - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Taxation of illegal income in the United States arises from the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, enacted by the U.S. Congress in part for the purpose of taxing net income. [1] As such, a person's taxable income will generally be subject to the same federal income tax rules, regardless of whether the income was obtained legally ...