Usually means: Income tax increases due to inflation.
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  1. bracket creep: Merriam-Webster
  2. bracket creep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bracket creep: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bracket creep: Vocabulary.com
  5. bracket creep: Wiktionary
  6. bracket creep: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. bracket creep: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. bracket creep: Dictionary.com
  9. Bracket creep: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. bracket creep: FreeDictionary.org
  11. bracket creep: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. bracket creep: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. bracket creep: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Bracket Creep: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  4. Bracket Creep: Investopedia
  5. bracket creep: Financial dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bracket creep)

noun:  (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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