current rates are (percentages) 10 , 25 , 28 , 33 ,35 - i am trying to find out how many taxpayers fall in each bracket in the united states
Google tax brackets I apologize. There is virtually no way to get an answer to your question via Googling. I tried for about an hour. I did find that in 2008 there were 98.7 million taxable returns filed. But the table from which the IRS published this statistic did not cluster Adjusted Gross Incomes (AGI) in accordance with the Tax Bracket cutoff values. I took the data from the table and make some very gross determinations of sort-of-useful cut-off values and came up with the following percentage estimates for the fraction of taxpayers in the six brackets: 16.6% , 28.9% , 31.3% , 17.8% , 2.4% , 3.1% You might be able to apply these percentages to the 98.7million figure if you really want to know numbers Bear in mind, though, that at least one study more reliable than my petty-little effort here shows that About 47 percent will pay no federal income taxes at all and The bottom 40 percent, on average, make a profit from the federal income tax, meaning they get more money in tax credits than they would otherwise owe in taxes. For those people, the government sends them a payment. and It is a system in which the top 10 percent of earners -- households making an average of $366,400 in 2006 -- paid about 73 percent of the income taxes collected by the federal government.
Go to the IRS home page and click on Tax Stats near the bottom right corner of the page.
