Scurvy: Lime is very well-known as a cure for scurvy, the disease which is caused from a deficiency of vitamin-C. It is characterized by frequent infections that show as normal cold symptoms, cracked lips and lip corners, ulcers on the tongue and in the mouth.
Your average tax rate is the percentage of your income that went to the government; itâs the total tax you paid divided by your total income. As an example, if you made $10,000 and paid $1,000 in taxes, your average tax rate would be 10%.
In 2010, the federal tax rate for the bottom quintile of the income distribution was 1.5 per-cent and that for the top quintile was 24.0 percent (see Figure 1). The top 1 percent of all households in the United States had an average federal tax rate of 29.4 percent in 2010.uch of the progressivity of the federal tax system derives from the individual income tax. In 2010, the lowest quintileâs average rate for the individual income tax was -9.2 percent and the second income quintileâs rate was -2.3 percent (see Figure 6 and see Table 2 on page 9).