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Income tax charts
6 charts about income tax, each with its public source, its numbers and its date.
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What share of federal income tax do the top 1% of earners pay?
The 1% of tax returns with the highest incomes paid 38.4% of all federal income tax in tax year 2023, up from 33.2% in 2001. Their share peaked at 45.8% in 2...
Source: IRS Statistics of Income, Table 4.1 (individual returns by income percentile) · Data as of Dec 31, 2023
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How much of the federal income tax does each income group pay?
In tax year 2023, the 1% of tax returns with the highest incomes paid 38.4% of all federal income tax, the next 9% paid 32.1%, the next 40% paid 26.2% and th...
Source: IRS Statistics of Income, Table 4.1 (individual returns by income percentile) · Data as of Dec 31, 2023
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How many federal income tax returns are filed each year?
About 153.1 million individual income tax returns were filed for tax year 2023, up from 119.4 million for 2001. The jump to 157.5 million for 2020 came as ma...
Source: IRS Statistics of Income, Table 4.1 (individual returns by income percentile) · Data as of Dec 31, 2023
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What average income tax rate does each income group pay?
In tax year 2023, the 0.1% of tax returns with the highest incomes paid 26.7% of their adjusted gross income in federal income tax, on average. The rate was ...
Source: IRS Statistics of Income, Table 4.1 (individual returns by income percentile) · Data as of Dec 31, 2023
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Which states report the highest average income on tax returns?
In tax year 2023, tax returns filed from the District of Columbia reported the highest average income, $143,300, followed by Connecticut ($121,733) and Massa...
Source: IRS Statistics of Income, Historic Table 2 (individual income and tax data by state) · Data as of Dec 31, 2023
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What is the average income on tax returns in your ZIP code?
Type any ZIP code to see the average income on the tax returns filed from it in tax year 2022, next to its state's and the U.S. average of $94,267. ZIP code ...
Source: IRS Statistics of Income, individual income tax ZIP code data · Data as of Dec 31, 2022