R's federal income tax

tax

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 75. Do you consider the amount of federal income tax which you have to pay as too high, about right, or too low?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	about right	don't know	no answer	r pays no income tax (vol.)	too high	too low	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	-	488	49	8	74	871	9	-	1499
1977	-	423	61	7	33	995	11	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	-	391	66	19	-	988	4	-	1468
1982	-	457	73	16	22	1285	7	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	-	475	30	14	29	917	8	-	1473
1985	-	493	47	3	59	925	7	-	1534
1986	1470	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	-	591	76	18	42	1077	15	-	1819
1988	504	380	33	2	19	533	10	-	1481
1989	504	382	36	4	24	576	11	-	1537
1990	455	331	34	15	-	531	6	-	1372
1991	524	380	46	15	-	541	11	-	1517
1993	531	436	29	15	-	582	13	-	1606
1994	996	658	60	22	-	1240	16	-	2992
1996	981	589	68	8	-	1242	16	-	2904
1998	950	583	91	15	-	1176	17	-	2832
2000	956	576	74	16	-	1178	17	-	2817
2002	1841	345	24	-	-	546	9	-	2765
2004	1914	334	18	1	-	532	13	-	2812
2006	2507	792	53	1	-	1134	23	-	4510
2008	671	560	41	1	-	729	21	-	2023
2010	763	580	41	6	-	631	23	-	2044
2012	666	603	34	6	-	636	29	-	1974
2014	824	683	42	3	-	956	30	-	2538
2016	977	774	48	9	-	1011	48	-	2867
2018	774	664	39	4	-	829	38	-	2348
2021	1364	1082	10	-	-	1478	74	24	4032
2022	1203	811	57	4	-	1414	46	9	3544
2024	1067	634	53	3	-	1501	42	9	3309
Total	31664	15495	1333	235	302	26054	574	42	75699

Values

• 1 too high

• 2 about right

• 3 too low

• 4 r pays no income tax (vol.)

• NA(d) don't know

• NA(i) iap

• NA(j) I don't have a job

• NA(m) dk, na, iap

• NA(n) no answer

• NA(p) not imputable

• NA(r) refused

• NA(s) skipped on web

• NA(u) uncodeable

• NA(x) not available in this release

• NA(y) not available in this year

• NA(z) see codebook