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progressive tax
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tax where the tax rate increases as the taxable base amount increases
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Encyclopedic overview
Rough estimation of average tax rates by income groups in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1970 (left) and 2005 (right). It implies that in these respective countries, taxes were more progressive in 1970 than in 2005.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “progressive tax” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.