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Does their definition of "income" include capital gains for the purpose of those reports? Yes https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data

• int_19h 8y ago
  It doesn't show up in their data, because they cut off at 0.1% - the hump is slightly higher than that. This shows where it was as of 2014. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/how-capital-gains-affected-average-income-tax-rates-2001-2014 https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/how-capital-gains-aff... I'm not sure where it is today, exactly. But it's easy to see that it's always going to be there, simply by virtue of increasing proportion of capital gains at higher income levels.