How much income tax do people really pay?

Published on February 8, 2010 in Line Graph, Tax collection and United States. 0 Comments

From New York Times

The Effective Federal Tax Rate looks at the % of income paid to the Federal Government at different incomes groups. In the graph below you can see how the percentage has changed over the last 30 years:

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50 years of Corporate Tax Data

Published on February 7, 2010 in Area Graph, Line Graph, Tax Rates, Tax collection and United States. 0 Comments

Day 7 of 28 Days of Tax Data

From Heritage Foundation

They have graphed the top tax rate for corporations with amount of corporate taxes collected as percent of GDP (since 1960)

From Tax Policy Center

Here is the corporate income tax as the percent of Federal Taxes collected (since 1950)

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Tax rates and Government Spending

Published on February 6, 2010 in Area Graph, Federal Budget, Interactive Graphic, Tax collection and United States. 0 Comments

Day 6 of 28 Days of Tax Data

From USA Today

There is a lot going on in this interactive graphic:

  • The main graph is plotting a single salary (in gray) but it is shown adjusted for inflation from 1940 to 2008.
  • The colored areas represent the amount of tax appropriated each year to different parts of the federal budget.
  • The smaller graph shows the percent of income paid in federal taxes from 1940 to 2008

I have taken screenshots for three different incomes for comparison: $10,000 $100,000 and $1,000,000. You will notice that the percentage of the tax collected for Social Security is greater for the $10,000 income than for the two higher incomes. This is because the % of taxes collected from the Social Security tax is highest on the $10,000 income.

$10,000

$100,000

$1,000,000

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Who is Not Paying Taxes?

Published on February 5, 2010 in Bar Chart, Income - Inequality, Distribution, Pie chart, Tax collection and United States. 4 Comments

Day 5 of 28 Days of Tax Data

From Mint

There is a lot going on in this graphic. First, keep in mind that a “Tax unit” is either a single person, two people married filling jointly, or head of household (for example a single person with dependent child).

The gray dashed bars are the tax units that don’t owe any taxes to the Federal Government. What struck me was that these people can be found at all income levels.

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Historical Marginal Income Tax Rates

Published on February 4, 2010 in Bar Chart, Line Graph, Tax Rates and United States. 0 Comments

Day 4 of 28 Days of Tax Data.

I always enjoy a graph of the marginal tax rate (i.e. the tax rate applied to the income of the very wealthy by the Federal Government). But I don’t know why they needed a 3-D line? From Starboard Broadside

Second graph is of the same data but not as pretty. From Balloon Juice

Here is one I created in 2007.
Income of top 0.1% vs top marginal tax magnafing glass

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Taxes: US vs OECD

Published on February 3, 2010 in Tax collection and United States. 1 Comment Tags: .

Day 3 of “28 days of Tax Data”

Update Here is a graph with 2007 data from (Thanks to Jerome Cukie for the pointer)

Unfortunately, this is only from 1955-2003 but I thought it was an interesting graph especially the comparison between Average Taxes on Income and Profits.

  • Light green is OECD Average Taxes on Income and Profits
  • Dark green is United States Average Taxes on Income and Profits


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