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So here we're talking taxation, and we want to compute average tax rate.
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And average tax rate is going to be equal to total tax over income.
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And of course, income here is $80 ,000.
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So that one is straightforward.
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The question is, what is total tax? well, my argument is we need to go through the brackets.
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So the total tax is going to have a bunch of different parts to it.
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For the first $15 ,000, the person is going to pay 10%, which is $1 ,500.
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For the second bracket, which is from $40 ,000 to $15 ,000, that person is going to pay a tax rate of 15%, 0 .15...