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Marginal Effective Tax Rate: From The Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy (Article)
Don Fullerton

The marginal effective tax rate, designed to measure incentives for investment, is a calculation that takes into account effects of measurement and timing of income in determining the impact of a tax applied to an additional dollar of capital income. The marginal effective tax rate on capital income is the expected pretax rate of return minus the expected after-tax rate of return on a new marginal investment, divided by the pretax rate of return.

Posted to Web: October 01, 1999Publication Date: October 01, 1999

 

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