U.S. taxpayers' share of income taxes 2020, by income percentile

Published by Statista Research Department, Jun 2, 2023
In 2020, about 97.68 percent of total income taxes in the United States were paid by the top 50 percent of earners. In that same year, the top one percent of earners paid 42.31 percent of total income taxes in the country.

U.S. taxpayers' share of income taxes in 2020, by income percentile

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November 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

Tax year 2020

Supplementary notes

There were 157.49 million total federal income tax filers, paying a total of 12.53 trillion U.S. dollars of income tax.

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