T01Annual (tax year) · % of resident personal income tax liability
Who pays California income tax: share of resident tax liability by income group
Income groups are non-overlapping groups of resident returns, not marginal tax brackets. The top 0.1% sits inside the top 1% and is drawn separately so it is not counted twice.
Not fucked
Better than its 2017–19 range · getting worseJudged on “Top 1%”. Fragility: the more the budget leans on the top 1%, the harder it swings with markets. Latest 40.2 vs 2017–19 range 44.7–47.2.
How verdicts work →Top 1%
40.2% of resident PIT liability · 2024 · preliminaryDashed / hollow = preliminary or estimate
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What this is
Next 10% = FTB top quintile minus top 10%. Groups are disjoint and add to 100%. The top 0.1% is part of the top 1% and is not stacked.
- Unit
- % of resident personal income tax liability
- Frequency
- Annual (tax year)
- Geography
- California resident returns
- Coverage
- From 1 Jul 2003 · latest observation 1 Jul 2024
- Release
- Twice a year (spring/fall exhibits); latest tax year is preliminary
- Typical lag
- ~15 months after tax year end
- Source
- FTB via DOF Exhibits Spring 2026, Exhibit A-12 (PIT samples) · data.ca.gov ↗
- Vintage
- DOF/FTB exhibits dated Apr 2026
- Pipeline
- semi-automated (FTB/DOF exhibit PDF parsed; new edition URL each spring/fall must be added to fetch_sources.py)
Every observation in this file
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