bracket creep

1. 1.

   a movement into a higher tax bracket as taxable income increases

   Broaderincome tax

Questions about bracket creep

What does bracket creep mean?

bracket creep means "a movement into a higher tax bracket as taxable income increases".

Is bracket creep a common word?

bracket creep is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.