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Computing Income Tax The tax that you pay to the federal government is a percentage of your taxable income, which is what remains of your gross income after you subtract your allowed deduction. In a recent year, there were five rates or brackets for a single taxpayer as shown in Table 1
So, if you are single and your taxable income was less that
Let
Find the formula for the
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Find the maximum amount of tax that you will pay on the portion of your income in second tax bracket. Expression this as a difference between two values of
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