bracket creep
noun
: movement into a higher tax bracket as a result of income rises intended to offset the effects of inflation
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Rising wages and 'bracket creep' Workers' incomes have generally been rising.
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Scott Horsley, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
This diagnostic bracket creep struck me as mistaken conceptually — think of those bold fish — but sometimes justified clinically.
—Peter D. Kramer, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
To avoid bracket creep, the government began adjusting, or indexing, tax brackets for inflation in the early 1980s, after a long period of raging inflation.
—Ann Carrns, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
Surreptitiously and automatically through inflation and bracket creep.
—Mike Solon, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
Change to income tax brackets to avoid bracket creep.
—Steven Arons, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2022
That means, in a world with 8.6% inflation, South Carolina’s indexing is not keeping up with inflation, resulting in some bracket creep.
—Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 16 June 2022
With 16 tax brackets and 9% inflation over the period, bracket creep increased taxes as a share of gross domestic product by 2.1%, dwarfing the later Clinton and Obama tax increases combined.
—Mike Solon, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
Lawmakers in some of these 13 states have taken action this year to protect their constituents against bracket creep.
—Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 16 June 2022
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Scott Horsley, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
This diagnostic bracket creep struck me as mistaken conceptually — think of those bold fish — but sometimes justified clinically.
—Peter D. Kramer, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
To avoid bracket creep, the government began adjusting, or indexing, tax brackets for inflation in the early 1980s, after a long period of raging inflation.
—Ann Carrns, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
Surreptitiously and automatically through inflation and bracket creep.
—Mike Solon, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
Change to income tax brackets to avoid bracket creep.
—Steven Arons, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2022
That means, in a world with 8.6% inflation, South Carolina’s indexing is not keeping up with inflation, resulting in some bracket creep.
—Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 16 June 2022
With 16 tax brackets and 9% inflation over the period, bracket creep increased taxes as a share of gross domestic product by 2.1%, dwarfing the later Clinton and Obama tax increases combined.
—Mike Solon, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
Lawmakers in some of these 13 states have taken action this year to protect their constituents against bracket creep.
—Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 16 June 2022
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“Bracket creep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bracket%20creep. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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