"bracket creep" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1985, C. Eugene Steuerle, Taxes, Loans, and Inflation: How the Nation's Wealth Becomes Misallocated, page 34:",
          "text": "The corporate tax is essentially a flat-rate tax; thus there is no bracket creep.",
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          "ref": "1990, John B. Shoven, Joel Waldfogel, Debt, Taxes, and Corporate Restructuring, page 27:",
          "text": "Bracket creep, however, was occurring only among individuals, not corporations. All other things being equal, this bracket creep increased the extent to which borrowing would be undertaken by individuals, not corporations.",
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          "text": "2001, Frederick C. v N. Fourie, How to Think and Reason in Macroeconomics, 2nd edition, page 290,\nBracket creep can be avoided by regularly adjusting tax brackets for inflation, so that the tax brackets remain unchanged in real terms."
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        "The move towards increased taxation when an inflation adjustment to a wage or salary pushes a taxpayer into a higher tax bracket (or, in a progressive taxation regime, further into a bracket)."
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        "(taxation) The move towards increased taxation when an inflation adjustment to a wage or salary pushes a taxpayer into a higher tax bracket (or, in a progressive taxation regime, further into a bracket)."
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          "roman": "zhījià rúbiàn",
          "sense": "increased taxation caused by inflation",
          "word": "支架蠕變 /支架蠕变"
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          "roman": "shuìjí páshēng",
          "sense": "increased taxation caused by inflation",
          "word": "稅級爬升 /税级爬升"
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          "sense": "increased taxation caused by inflation",
          "word": "verotuksen kiristyminen inflaation myötä"
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          "sense": "increased taxation caused by inflation",
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      "roman": "zhījià rúbiàn",
      "sense": "increased taxation caused by inflation",
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