Re: [Pen-l] data help

["Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:
> The WSJ reports:
>
> According to the figures, the richest 1% reported 22% of the nation's total adjusted 
> gross income in 2006. That is up from 21.2% a year earlier, and is the highest in 
> the 19 years that the IRS has kept strictly comparable figures. The 1988 level was 
> 15.2%. Earlier IRS data show the last year the share of income belonging to the top 
> 1% was at such a high level as it was in 2006 was in 1929, but changes in measuring 
> income make a precise comparison difficult.
>
> I tried to find the data on the IRS site, but did not succeed.  Any help would be 
> appreciated.

Data here doesn't cut it by percentiles but tells the same story.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/06inalcr.pdf
page 31


More here:

http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/indtaxstats/article/0,,id=133857,00.html

and here:  http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/index.html


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