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Number of taxable returns among U.S. tax returns filed in 2018, by income
Number of tax returns filed and number of taxable returns in the United States in 2018, by income (in millions)
by Erin Duffin,
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Jun 4, 2019
This statistic shows the number of tax returns filed in the United States in 2018 for income in 2018, as well as the number of those returns that were taxable, by income. In 2018, of the 16.72 million returns filed by those that earned less than 10,000 U.S. dollars in 2018, around 8.15 million returns were taxable.
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by Erin Duffin,
last edited
Jun 4, 2019
This statistic shows the number of tax returns filed in the United States in 2018 for income in 2018, as well as the number of those returns that were taxable, by income. In 2018, of the 16.72 million returns filed by those that earned less than 10,000 U.S. dollars in 2018, around 8.15 million returns were taxable.
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