Marginal tax rate is the rate you pay on your last dollar of income, based on your tax bracket. Effective tax rate is the average rate you pay on all of your income. Understanding the difference is ...

What Are Marginal Tax Rates? Marginal tax rates are the percentage of tax applied to each extra dollar of income as a taxpayer moves through different tax brackets. In other words, it represents the ...

Kelsey Plum doesn't understand marginal tax rates, but the topic trips up even tax experts.