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10 16 8.38%
15 50 26.18%
25 55 28.80%
28 30 15.71%
33 16 8.38%
35 7 3.66%
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Old 04-20-2015, 08:21 PM   #1
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Poll: What tax bracket are you?

If there is a recent poll, then never mind, but I think it would be interesting to see the range of brackets on this forum. Brackets drive investing style, where to live, etc.
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Old 04-20-2015, 08:54 PM   #2
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Pretty much whatever I want it to be! But in 2014 I ran it up to a marginal rate of 28.8%, which was the 25% bracket plus the 3.8% ACA investment tax. I entered 28% in the poll, though 25% might be the better answer.
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Old 04-20-2015, 09:03 PM   #3
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15% federal / 2% state of Louisiana

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Unfortunately I am in the AMT tax bracket - 26%.
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Old 04-20-2015, 09:45 PM   #6
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2014, 33% plus some 3.8% ACA on investments (damn selling that website I paid $20 for $5000)

2015 probably 10%

2016+ likely 0% or lower
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Your poll does not reflect the change to the tax code by the ACA so I can't vote as no category fits. My federal income taxes for 2014 were 0, actually less than 0 as I got a refundable tax credit for $1800.
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15% in 2014
shooting for 10% in 2015
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15% for me but it is a bit complicated... I did Roth conversion over the top of the 15% tax bracket and then did a recharacterization to reduce the Roth conversion so that my taxable income was exactly the top of the 15% tax bracket.

So I paid 15% on the last dollar of income (Roth conversion) but the marginal rate on my next dollar of income would have been 30% since going over the 15% tax bracket would cause LTCG that was previously taxed at 0% to be taxed at 15%.
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Old 04-21-2015, 07:22 AM   #10
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One of the things I really liking about the first full calendar year of retirement is finding that I have a great deal of control over our effective income tax rate. W@rking years it was was it was, and that wasn't pretty.
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Barely got into the 15%. Love controlling my tax destiny. Got the savers tax credit this year too.
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Old 04-21-2015, 07:56 AM   #12
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I marked 15% using the IRS definitions, but can engineer whatever I need it to be. Each Dec I review where I stand and may take some cap gains, maybe some losses, maybe convert money to Roth. I assume your asking about marginal tax bracket, not actual taxes paid as % of income
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Old 04-21-2015, 08:08 AM   #13
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25% nominal and 12% effective per my tax accountant......
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staying under 15% until RMD's kick-in at 70.5
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Tax bracket doesn't matter nearly as much as the overall tax rate.
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Tax bracket doesn't matter nearly as much as the overall tax rate.
Agree, my effective federal rate was a little over 20% on total taxable income.
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I'm in the 25% marginal bracket. As for overall bracket though, is it best to quote gross income or AGI? Last year I only came in around 10% federal, for AGI. Not sure about gross.

I didn't pay enough throughout the year, so the April 2015 tax bill was pretty gross
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I'm in the 25% bracket, however, I only paid a little over 13% tax. So a lot more is taxed under 25% than at 25%.
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I do what ever I need to in order to stay in the 15% bracket....
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