Excerpt from General Explanation of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 (H. R. 4242, 97th Congress, Public Law 97-34): December 29, 1981 The Act provides cumulative across-the-board reductions in indi vidual income tax rates of percent in 1981, 10 percent in 1982, 19 percent in 1983, and 23 percent in 1984 and subsequent years. These tax reductions will be reflected in reductions in withholding on October 1, 1981, July 1, 1982, and July 1, 1983. The top marginal tax rate is reduced from 70 percent to 50 percent beginning January 1, 1982. The maximum tax rate on long term capital gains is reduced to 20 percent for sales or exchanges after June 9, 1981. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.