tax
General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 75. Do you consider the amount of federal income tax which you have to pay as too high, about right, or too low?
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 |
| Total | 30597 | 14861 | 1280 | 232 | 302 | 24553 | 532 | 33 | 72390 |
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(q) 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