Posts tagged Income Taxes
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Marginally better than silence
No less an authority than the Internal Revenue Service reports that at least 10,080 households with gross incomes of over $200,000 paid nothing at all in income taxes in 2009. (OK, that doesn’t literally put them all in the top 1 percent, but pretty close.) Those high earners are not (necessarily) breaking any laws—just taking clever advantage of a panoply of tax deductions. They’re also ducking the alternative minimum tax, which, as Bloomberg explains, “was created in 1969 in response to a report that 155 people earned $200,000 and paid nothing in taxes.” The horror.
![[A] New York janitor making slightly more than $33,000 a year pays an effective tax rate of nearly 25%. And the effective tax rate for a resident of the Park Avenue building named after Helmsley, earning an average of $1.2 million annually? A cool 14.7%.
Time to complain about how the paupers aren’t paying enough taxes.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk6tpi2YLF1qa2rino1_500.png)
[A] New York janitor making slightly more than $33,000 a year pays an effective tax rate of nearly 25%. And the effective tax rate for a resident of the Park Avenue building named after Helmsley, earning an average of $1.2 million annually? A cool 14.7%.
Time to complain about how the paupers aren’t paying enough taxes.
