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Given the Following Tax Structure, What Is the Minimum Tax

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Given the following tax structure, what is the minimum tax that would need to be assessed on Lizzy to make the tax progressive with respect to average tax rates? What is the minimum tax that would need to be assessed on Lizzy to make the tax progressive with respect to effective tax rates?
 Tuxpayer  Salary  Muni-Band Interest  Total Tax  Mort 20,0005,0004,000 Lizzy 80,00030,000???\begin{array} { | l | r | r | r | } \hline { \text { Tuxpayer } } & \text { Salary } & { \text { Muni-Band Interest } } & { \text { Total Tax } } \\\hline \text { Mort } & 20,000 & 5,000 & 4,000 \\\hline \text { Lizzy } & 80,000 & 30,000 & ? ? ? \\\hline\end{array}

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Mort's average tax rate is 20 percent.
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