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That's not what your link says. The final rows are "don't pay either" (20% of tax units). The one you quoted is from the 2020 data for "Zero or Negative Sum of
by boulos 5y ago
That's not what your link says. The final rows are "don't pay either" (20% of tax units). The one you quoted is from the 2020 data for "Zero or Negative Sum of Income and Payroll Taxes".
Your total tax liability can become zero, even post the 7-ish% Social Security and such, due to the EITC and so on. For example, if you make $20,000 / yr but have two children (made up numbers), you probably end up with a sum of zero.
- TameAntelope 5y agoWhat does a "sum of zero" mean, in "dollars paid to the US government overall"?
- boulos 5y agoThe $300-600/week/person benefit counts as part of that sum (plus the one off checks). So you could have Federal taxes of say $2000 and then benefits of $10000, resulting in a net transfer (sum of "zero" is probably not right, <= zero).