Monday, November 7, 2011

Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | Blog Archive | Exploding, Once Again, the “Non-Payer” Tax Myth

Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | Blog Archive | Exploding, Once Again, the “Non-Payer” Tax Myth:
Have you heard the one about how nearly half of Americans don’t pay taxes? Nonsense, as the recent Congressional Budget Office report on income inequality reminds us.
Low- and Middle-Income Households Pay Significant Payroll Taxes
As we have explained, in a typical year around 35-40 percent of households don’t owe any federal income tax. But most of them pay a significant share of their incomes in other taxes — particularly payroll taxes, as the CBO report points out:

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