See my response to Komissar's "practical computational question". [If I understand your "highest income tax bracket" correctly, the answer is probably "no" - it may or may not be the highest: depends on the size of ordinary taxable income & other items of income.]NEVA wrote:By "ordinary" rate do you just mean this person's highest income tax bracket for this year?
In other words, "ordinary" is the one that is not "preferred" or specially defined by the statute (like depreciation recapture, for example, or rate for gains on sale of collectibles).