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These taxes cover your contributions to Medicare, Social Security, disability and survivor benefits and to federal unemployment benefits. It is the amount deducted from your paycheck for healthcare premiums or 401(k) contributions.

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Estate and inheritance taxes are paid after someone dies. An estate tax is paid from the net worth of the deceased. It’s a tax on the privilege of passing on assets to heirs.

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The tax of the income you earn. Federal income taxes are both progressive and marginal. Marginal means that there are different tax rates for different income brackets.

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Capital gains taxes apply to investment income after an investment is sold and a capital gain is realized.

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The taxes you pay on homes, land or commercial real estate. You have to keep paying them for as long as you live in a home.

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A proportional tax is the same as a flat tax. Taxpayers at all income levels pay the same proportion in taxes. Proportional taxes are regressive taxes.

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A regressive tax is one that is not progressive. This could either mean that the tax is lower for wealthy individuals or that the tax is flat everyone pays the same rate.

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A tax that is higher for taxpayers with more money. The U.S. federal progressive tax system has income tax, wealthy individuals pay tax at a higher rate than less wealthy individuals.

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A tax on the money people spend not the money people earn. Sales tax, which is an excise tax on a specific good, such as alcohol or gasoline, is a type of consumption tax.