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Who is Paying Their Fair Share of Taxes?

November 18, 2018 by Wayne Creed Leave a Comment

Top earners remain targets for tax increases, but the federal income tax system is already highly progressive. In 2016, the latest year with available data, the top 10 percent of income earners earned 46 percent of all income and paid 69 percent of all federal income taxes.

Graph courtesy of IRS

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