tax freedom day

Unless you've filed for an extension, today is the last day to get your taxes turned in to the IRS. It also happens to be Tax Freedom Day, when the average American has worked enough days to have paid all their taxes for the year.

More than three months of your hard-earned wages are going straight to your tax bill this year. Americans will spend an average of 29% of their income on federal, state and local taxes in 2012, the Tax Foundation announced Monday.

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Happy Tax Freedom Day! It has taken us just 99 days to get here, but today, Americans will celebrate Tax Freedom Day. Tax Freedom Day marks the day that taxpayers have earned enough money to pay their taxes for the year. This year, US taxpayers have to work nearly 100 days before they have earned...

Tax Freedom Day falls on April 23 this year, according to the Tax Foundation. Each year the Tax Foundation calculates how many days Americans must work to pay all of their taxes, assuming all of your wages would go to pay taxes first. Then the remaining days of the year, all of your wages are...