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1/8/2007 Study: Bush tax cuts benefited rich most
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Millionaires saw their U.S. tax rates drop more sharply than any economic group under U.S. President George W. Bush's tax cuts, a congressional study says.
At the same time, tax rates for middle-income earners rose in 2004, the most recent year for which data were available, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office study found.
Middle-income families earning an average $56,200 in 2004 saw their average effective tax rate rise slightly to 2.9 percent in 2004 from 2003, but fall from 5 percent in 2000, translating to an average $1,180 tax cut.
By contrast, the effective individual tax rates for the top 1 percent of U.S. families, earning an average $1.25 million a year, dropped to 19.6 percent in 2004 from 24.2 percent in 2000, or almost $58,000, the report said.
While tax cuts for the rich were bigger than those for other groups, the wealthiest families generally paid a bigger share of total taxes, The New York Times reported.
Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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