Your marginal tax rate is the highest income tax rate you’ll pay on your income. Because the U.S. has a progressive tax system, different tiers of your income are taxed at different rates. The ...

Effective tax rate is your average tax rate as a percentage of total income. Marginal tax rate is the tax on your highest dollar earned, not your total income. Historically, top marginal rates have ...

The Internal Revenue Service has released its new marginal tax rates for next year. For 2025, tax adjustments will generally apply to income tax returns to be filed starting in the 2026 tax season.

Taken together with the inflation measure the IRS uses, the agency says that—on average—the inflation-adjusted tax numbers ...