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It's probably not exactly what you're looking for, but it's a place to start, and like me, you might have to just wing some things.
It has the website where the historical tax rates are available (yes there are different categories. Pick a useful one like Married Filing Jointly or Single and use that, if only to orient yourself and then figure out how to add (or leave out) things in a manner useful to what you are trying to present.
As an example, the graphs I have on that page: I made those from the inflation-adjusted thresholds where one tax bracket shifted to the next. That was back when there were lots of arguments about raising taxes on income over 250K (e.g., "is $250K 'rich'?"
, and I was trying to show how we handled different income levels historically. It's easy to find charts of the historical top rate, but not of where various rates have fallen, so I had to do it myself. For example, in 1955 there were 24 tax brackets, and 16 of them affected incomes over the equivalent of 250K. "So, Mr. Teabagger, by your definitions, WE were a 'marxist' country back under Eisenhower. I'm curious: What did that make the Soviets?"
Note that my graphs don't show the rates, which can be a separate issue, just the bracket breakpoints. You might need to do something similar: focus on something you can show clearly so that you don't end up with a muddle by trying to show everything. Maybe you'll need two charts to cover one aspect then cover another, a sort of one-two punch. In the end, it'll depend on what you're trying to show.
It's probably not exactly what you're looking for, but it's a place to start, and like me, you might have to just wing some things.
It has the website where the historical tax rates are available (yes there are different categories. Pick a useful one like Married Filing Jointly or Single and use that, if only to orient yourself and then figure out how to add (or leave out) things in a manner useful to what you are trying to present.
As an example, the graphs I have on that page: I made those from the inflation-adjusted thresholds where one tax bracket shifted to the next. That was back when there were lots of arguments about raising taxes on income over 250K (e.g., "is $250K 'rich'?"
, and I was trying to show how we handled different income levels historically. It's easy to find charts of the historical top rate, but not of where various rates have fallen, so I had to do it myself. For example, in 1955 there were 24 tax brackets, and 16 of them affected incomes over the equivalent of 250K. "So, Mr. Teabagger, by your definitions, WE were a 'marxist' country back under Eisenhower. I'm curious: What did that make the Soviets?"
Note that my graphs don't show the rates, which can be a separate issue, just the bracket breakpoints. You might need to do something similar: focus on something you can show clearly so that you don't end up with a muddle by trying to show everything. Maybe you'll need two charts to cover one aspect then cover another, a sort of one-two punch. In the end, it'll depend on what you're trying to show.
there are hundreds of them
