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Top 400 Taxpayers: Income and Taxes Paid 1992-2005

Published by Catherine on March 30, 2008 in Area Graph, IRS, Income - Average, Median, Income - High, Line Graph, Tax Rates, Tax collection and United States. 5 Comments

This graph shows the average income reported to the IRS and the average taxes paid by the top 400, i.e. the 400 taxes returns with the highest adjusted gross income from 1992-2005. This does not represent not gains in the wealth of people like Bill Gates but instead shows the annual income of the superrich reported to the IRS. They accounted for 1.15% of total income reported in 2005, more than twice as large as their 0.49% share in 1995.

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Data from the IRS via Wall Street Journal’s Tax Report

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Average Income: PreTax vs AfterTax 2005

Published by Catherine on March 16, 2008 in Bar Chart, Congressional Budget Office, Income - Average, Median, Income - Share of, Tax Rates, Tax collection and United States. 3 Comments

I created this graph showing the average income for different household percentiles, comparing pretax income and aftertax income. The minimum income threshold for each percentile is noted in the graph.

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Data from Congressional Budget Office

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Tax Collection by Type of Return 2006

Published by Catherine on February 24, 2008 in Bar Chart, Tax collection and United States. 2 Comments

From the IRS Tax Stats at a Glance, I have graphed the percent of returns compared to percent of dollars collected (before refunds), broken out by the type of tax: Individual, Employment, Corporate, Excise, Estate, and Gift.

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