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February 3, 2012
Taxes
Over the past 40 years, federal revenues have ranged from nearly 21 percent of GDP, in fiscal year 2000, to less than 16 percent, in fiscal years 2009 through 2012; they have averaged about 18 percent of GDP over the four decades. In addition to projecting the future course of federal revenues, CBO analyzes the budgetary and economic effects of various features of the federal tax system and the effects of potential changes to current tax rules.
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- effective tax rates
- share of taxes paid
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- income ranges for each income class
- all of the above information
Supplemental Material
- distribution of income, households with children
- distribution of income, elderly households
- distribution of income, nonelderly childless households
- households paying more in payroll taxes than income taxes
- median before-tax and after-tax income
- sources of income, by income category
- Historical Effective Tax Rates, 1979 to 2005: Supplement with Additional Data on Sources of Income and High-Income Households
Additional Analyses
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- Effective Tax Rates: Comparing Annual and Multiyear Measures
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