• SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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    25 days ago

    Never understood the idea of tax brackets. Why isn’t it just continuous? Computers are calculating the tax now anyway, not like it would be infeasible.

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      25 days ago

      Tax brackets are there for progressive taxation. Progressive income taxation is the most fair form of taxation. The least fair is consumption tax - such as sales tax. Sales tax tax disproportionately burdens lower income households. Since most places have sales tax, an aggressive progression of income taxation is called for to balance the scales.

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        25 days ago

        I’m not speaking against progressive taxation, I’m saying the brackets should be continuous so there aren’t any sharp turns in taxation. Right now the brackets make the taxation discrete, but I feel it should be continuous.

    • vin@lemmynsfw.com
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      25 days ago

      Could totally do a sigmoid function and just integrate over the income. But the brackets are just discrete approximation of that.