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bracket creep definition - finance
The effect that inflation has on pushing incomes higher and, thus, into higher income tax brackets.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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