Historical Tax Rates by Income Group [NYTimes]

A recent NY Times article included a graph showing the amount of taxes paid to the federal government based on income groups. While I like the graph it does not explain what the income thresholds are for each income group. However, I was able to pull out of the original journal article that the average income for the highest earning 0.01% was $18,113,612.

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See also: What does Top 1%, Top 0.1%, Top 0.01% mean?
2005 US Income Distribution part 3

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5 Responses to “Historical Tax Rates by Income Group [NYTimes]”


  1. 1 TJIC

    It would be interesting to see GDP growth rates plotted in there too, to see if there’s a correlation between marginal tax rates and growth.

  2. 2 Kevin

    If the start of the graph were to be the begining of the 1900’s instead of 1960’s a very different picture would emerge.

  3. 3 P Henry

    vs GDP AND starting in 1900.
    Now that would tell us something.
    Me thinks starting in the 1960s gives the impression that the more modern tax rates are a aberration, whereas I think the 1960 tax rate was the aberration.

  4. 4 jsowers

    the newyork times is the aberation

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