Four Cuts of the Same CountryTax 2026 · Data 2022–23

Wealth and tax, each cut its own honest way.

You asked to see wealth and tax burden per bracket, total and per person, as stacks of $. Two of these are cleanly measurable by tax bracket; two are not. Rather than fake the alignment, each measure sits on the finest axis its real data supports — and the seam between them is marked, not hidden. Tap ⤢ on any field to focus it full-screen.

2026 federal brackets — single filer · matched income group
10%$0 – $12,400inc <20%
12%$12,401 – $50,40020–40%
22%$50,401 – $105,70040–60%
24%$105,701 – $201,77560–80%
32%$201,776 – $256,22580–90%
35%$256,226 – $640,60090–100%
37%$640,601 +90–100%
tax — by marginal bracket · real
1 · Total tax generated per bracket
each $ = $1 billion of federal income tax
7 marginal brackets · IRS Table 3.6, TY2023
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share of the $2.07T generated by these 7 rates
2 · Tax per person, per bracket
each $ = $1,000 of tax generated at that rate, per return reaching it
7 marginal brackets · IRS Table 3.6, TY2023
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taxpayers, by top bracket reached (who sits where)
wealth — by income group · real
3 · Total net dollars held per income group
each $ = $1 billion of household net dollars (assets − debts)
6 usual-income sextiles · Fed SCF 2022
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share of $139.6T in household net dollars (SCF)
4 · Net dollars held per person
each $ = $1,000 a person holds (assets − debts) — not what they're worth
6 usual-income sextiles · Fed SCF 2022
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households per income group (each group's size)
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The two axes are not the same cut. Tax data (1, 2) is real, ranked by marginal rate — IRS reports exactly how much each rate generates and who reaches it. Wealth data (3, 4) is real, ranked by income group — the SCF reports net worth by income sextile. The bracket table up top pairs them by income range, but a taxpayer's taxable income (after deductions) and a family's usual income aren't the same number, so the pairing is a guide, not an identity.

Why wealth isn't drawn per bracket at all: the wealth-by-tax-bracket cross-tab isn't published, and any estimate would collapse at the top — the SCF's top income decile holds mean net dollars of $6.63M, which hides the top 1% holding near $44M. Forcing wealth onto the 7 brackets would understate the tail so badly it would lie. The income-sextile cut is the finest honest one, and even it buries that top-1% tail inside the 90–100 slice.

One deliberate word choice: these fields count net dollars held, never net "worth." A person can be worthy and is priceless; the dollars are a holding, not a price on the human. The distinction is the whole point of measuring this at all.

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Total federal income tax (7 rates, TY2023): $2.07 trillion
  • 37% bracket alone: $429.1B from ~0.9% of returns
  • Top two brackets (35%+37%): $586B combined

Household net worth (SCF 2022, 6 income groups): $139.6 trillion total
  • Top 10% (90–100): ~$87T (62.4%)
  • Bottom 40% (<40): ~$9.15T combined (6.6%)
  • Per-person mean in top 10%: ~$6.63M held
  • Per-person mean in bottom 20%: ~$130k held
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Four honest cuts through US wealth & federal tax — each on its own real axis (no forced alignment).

1. Total tax generated by each marginal rate (IRS)
2. Tax per person who reaches that bracket
3. Total household net dollars held by income sextile (Fed SCF)
4. Net dollars held per person in each income group

The seams are visible because taxable income ≠ usual income, and wealth-by-bracket data doesn’t exist without lying at the tail.

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