These are the numbers you’ll use for your 2019 tax returns in 2020. The income ranges have changed a bit, but otherwise, these numbers are similar to last year’s numbers.
Assuming you’re not expecting any major changes in 2019, these numbers can help estimate your liability. If you are planning on major changes like getting married, starting a business, or having a baby (big year!) you may want to adjust your withholding or updating your estimated tax payments.
You can find the new withholding calculator on the IRS website here.
Grab the spreadsheet here. The spreadsheet is very simple – just a copy of the data available in this IRS document. You can see a simple overview from Taxfoundation.org.
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Get the simple 2019 tax bracket spreadsheet here. Copy the sheet and use it in your own spreadsheet experiments and calculations. As always, we’d love to see how you use the data.
How to copy the spreadsheet into Google Drive, or download to your computer
Open the tax bracket spreadsheet
In the menu, click File Make a copy.
Type a name and choose where to save it.
Click Ok.
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Open the tax bracket spreadsheet
At the top, click File Download as.
Choose a file type. The file will download onto your computer.
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