Oct 11, 2017 ... After-tax incomes fell sharply at the top of the distribution in 2008 and 2009 but  have begun to recover. The up-and-down pattern in 2012-13 may reflect, in part,  decisions by wealthy taxpayers to sell assets in 2012 that had increased in value  since they were first purchased in order to pay taxes on those ...
Apr 19, 2017 ... And while Republicans remained less likely than other voters to believe they are  paying a fair amount of tax, 56 percent said they were, up sharply from ...  boosting their after-tax incomes by 14 percent, while a middle-income household  would get about $1,000 on average, a hike in after-tax income of less ...
Jul 20, 2012 ... Recent IRS data reveals that in 2010, over 58 million federal income tax filers  had no income tax liability after taking deductions and credits. ... These 58 million  nonpayers represent the second highest percentage of nonpayers since 1940,  behind only 2009, where nearly 42 percent of income tax filers were ...
Income inequality in the United States has increased significantly since the  1970s after several decades of stability, meaning the share of the nation's income  received by higher income households has increased. This trend is evident with  income measured both before taxes (market income) as well as after taxes and ...
Sep 17, 2012 ... Tax Policy Center data show that only about 17 percent of households did not  pay any federal income tax or payroll tax in 2009, despite the high unemployment  and temporary tax cuts that marked that year.[5] In 2007, a more typical year, the  figure was 14 percent. This percentage would be even lower if it ...
Since 2009, "after-tax incomes are up nearly 14 percent."