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A corporation’s pretax net income of $1,000,000 is taxable based on 10% of the first $300,000, 16% of the next $300,000, and 21% of the balance:
What is the corporation’s average tax rate?
What is the corporation’s marginal tax rate?
| 
 Slab  | 
 Income (allocation)  | 
 Tax rate  | 
 Income*Tax rate  | 
| 
 300,000.00  | 
 300,000  | 
 10%  | 
 30,000  | 
| 
 300,001-600,000  | 
 300,000  | 
 16%  | 
 48,000  | 
| 
 600,001-above  | 
 400,000  | 
 21%  | 
 84,000  | 
| 
 Total  | 
 1,000,000  | 
 162,000  | 
Average tax rate = Total tax / Total Income
Average tax rate = 162000 / 1000000
Average tax rate = 16.20%
.
Marginal tax rate = Higher slab rate = 21.00%
As individual has reached to higher tax slab any additional or marginal income will fall in higher slab rate only.