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To: tejek who wrote (452524)	1/30/2009 8:13:12 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576167

That report is about the top 400, or not much more than one in a million Americans. Also its not the same 400 people, so year to year comparisons aren't very meaningful. "Over the 15 tax years a total of 6,000 returns were identified for the table. There were 3,305 different taxpayers representing the top 400 returns of each year. Of these taxpayers, a little more than 27 percent appear more than once and slightly more than 15 percent appear more than twice (see columns 2 and 3). In any given year, on average, about 40 percent of the returns were filed by taxpayers that are not in any of the other 14 years (see columns 4 and 5). In each year, 8 (or 2.0 percent) of the returns are for taxpayers who can be found in all 15 years. Thus, the data shown in the table mostly represent a changing group of taxpayers over time, rather than a fixed group of taxpayers." taxfoundation.org