The first of series of infographics I am designing to illustrate the actual federal tax rate applied to different salaries. I want to show how the marginal income tax rates + social security and medicare taxes combine together for a single taxpayer up to $400,000. (This graphic does not including payroll tax or any taxes on capital gains. Those taxes will be investigated later.)

A little background about this data. If you take a look at your W-2 form you can see that there are 3 different taxes applied to salaries and wages:

The income tax graph is created from the 2009 tax schedule for a single taxpayer:

which you can find from the IRS Tax Tables here while the information about the social security and medicare tax can be found here.
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Day 27 of 28 Days of Tax Data
From Australia’s future tax system
Graph show the % of GDP collected in taxes.

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Day 26 of 28 Days of Tax Data
From Australia’s future tax system
Transfers and taxes by level of income for a single income family, two children aged 3 and 8 (2008?09) The area on the top half of the graph is the money transfered to the family while the bottom half shows the taxes paid by the family.

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Day 18 of 28 Days of Tax Data
From Tax Policy Center
Since in the 1970s and early 80s, property taxes become a less important source of state revenue while charges (fees, licenses) became more important.

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Day 13 of 28 Days of Tax Data
From Economix blog
The different sources of revenue for the federal government from 1934 to 2015. (2010-2015 are projections)

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Day 7 of 28 Days of Tax Data
From Heritage Foundation
They have graphed the top tax rate for corporations with amount of corporate taxes collected as percent of GDP (since 1960)

From Tax Policy Center
Here is the corporate income tax as the percent of Federal Taxes collected (since 1950)

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