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In the UK when people talk about "tax bracket", they don't usually mean "overall tax rate on total income", but rather, specifically which of the following bands you fall into: [1]. The fact that the author is in the 40% tax bracket means that any money he makes above £45k is taxed at 40%.

I can imagine to an outsider this seems like a bit of an unintuitive way to frame things :)

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/current-rates-and-allowa...



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