Washington state approves capital gains tax

Re:Washington state approves capital gains tax by apex3stoker on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:03PM (#26997040)

I think the new federal long term capital gain tax is a new tax bracket starting at 1 million, so the tax rate of the $1.2m will be broken down as follows:

* first 200k: 15%

* 200k-250k: 15% + 3.8% (ACA Medicare Tax)

* 250k-441k: 15% + 3.8% + 7% (New state Tax)

* 441k-1m: 20% + 3.8% + 7% (Federal capital gain tax increase to 20%)

* 1m-1.2m: 39.6% + 3.8% + 7% (New capital gain tax increase to 39.6%)

The tax rate wouldn't be 60% even at the highest marginal rate, which is 50.4%.

The average tax rate is about 30%.

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Re:Washington state approves capital gains tax by seattle_spring on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:10PM (#26997132)

> The tax rate wouldn't be 60% even at the highest marginal rate, which is 50.4%.

The Biden tax proposal also is adding a 12.4% social security tax for all income over $400k, and it's not split by employer and employee like the first ~$150k is now.

> The average tax rate is about 30%.

What's the average rate if it were realized equally over the 6 years it was earned? Do you feel it's fair this example person pays quite a bit more in taxes versus a similar employee who chose to realize a similar income at a bigco like Facebook?

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Re:Washington state approves capital gains tax by apex3stoker on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:44PM (#26997590)

I couldn't find any solid proposal for social security tax, like not splitting between employer and employee or applying to long term capital gain. If it is implemented like you said, yes, it will push the highest marginal tax rate to above 60%.

If a person makes $1.2m paycheck over 6 year evenly, they have $200k paycheck per year. They are subject to about 23% of federal income tax, and about 7% of social security and medicare taxes, so the average tax rate is about 30%.

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