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What percentage of income taxes are paid by the top earners?

The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid more than $1 trillion in income
taxes while the bottom 90 percent paid $531 billion. The share of income
taxes paid by the top 1 percent increased from 33.2 percent in 2001 to
45.8 percent in 2021.Mar 13, 2024

Does the top 1% pay 90% of the taxes?

In 2021, the latest year with available data, the top 1 percent of
income earners earned 26 percent of all income and paid 46 percent of
all federal income taxes – more than the bottom 95 percent combined (33 percent).

Who Pays Income Taxes? - Foundation
National Taxpayers Union
https://www.ntu.org › foundation › tax-page › who-pays-...

The top 10 percent of earners bore responsibility for 76 percent of all
income taxes paid, and the top 25 percent paid 89 percent of all income
taxes.

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