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The top 5 percent of U.S. earners paid roughly 61 percent of the national total in federal individual income taxes in 2022.
Multiple independent analyses of recent data converge on the same blunt point: the nation’s top 10 percent of income earners account for the lion’s share of —roughly three-quarters of the total—though...
The simplest, well-sourced headline answer: in 2022 the top 5 percent of earners — households with adjusted gross income of about $261,591 or more — collectively paid just over $1.3 trillion in federa...