Thanks Ron,
I understand what you have discribed to do, but have no understanding of
setting up a tax table, sorry?
Cheers Scott
Sorry, I thought it would be obvious.
The table contains the values from which the tax is computed.
You "set it up" by entering those values in a range of cells in the manner in
which I posted.
You could have pasted it directly into your spreadsheet.
To be more specific:
Set up this table and NAME it TaxTbl (or use the absolute address reference):
$ 0 0.00 12.5%
$17,500 $2,187.50 21%
$40,000 $6,912.50 33%
$75,000 $18,462.50 39%
The middle column is the cumulative tax paid on the amount in the first column,
so can be given by a formula:
Assume table is in H1:J4
I1: 0
I2: =J1*(H2-H1)+I1
and fill down to I4
So you would make the following entries:
H1: $0
I1: $0
J1: 12.5%
H2: $17,500
I2: 2187.5
J2: 21.0%
H3: $40,000
I3: 6912.5
J3: 33.0%
H4: $75,000
I4: 18462.5
J4: 39.0%
OR, you could use formulas in column I:
H1: $0
I1: $0
J1: 12.5%
H2: $17,500
I2: =J1*(H2-H1)+I1
J2: 21.0%
H3: $40,000
I3: =J2*(H3-H2)+I2
J3: 33.0%
H4: $75,000
I4: =J3*(H4-H3)+I3
J4: 39.0%
OR, you could just copy/paste the table I posted in my initial response to you.
With regard to the formula in A2, you could use either the one I posted
previously:
=VLOOKUP(A1,TaxTbl,2)+
(A1-VLOOKUP(A1,TaxTbl,1))*
VLOOKUP(A1,TaxTbl,3)
Or, if you can't figure out how to NAME a range in Excel by using HELP, you can
substitute the actual cell references:
=VLOOKUP(A1,H1:J4,2)+
(A1-VLOOKUP(A1,H1:J4,1))*
VLOOKUP(A1,H1:J4,3)
If you put your Tax Table someplace else, you will need to adjust the range
references to reflect that new location.
--ron