New statistics from the Internal Revenue Service indicate that 20,752 taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of $200,000 or more in 2009 had no U.S. income tax liability.
Those 20,752 taxpayers represent only 0.529 percent of the nearly 4 million tax returns for those with AGI of $200,000 or more. The statistics also indicated that 10,080 taxpayers with $200,000 or more in AGI, or 0.257 percent, showed no worldwide income tax liability.
Those numbers represented a change from the previous year.
“For 2008, as revised to reflect refundable credits, of the 4,375,660 returns with AGI of $200,000 or more, 22,257 returns (0.509 percent) had no U.S. income tax liability, and 12,326 returns (0.282 percent) had no worldwide income tax liability,” wrote Justin Bryan in the spring 2012 edition of the IRS’s quarterly