Personal Taxes: Personal Taxes by Quintiles of Income Before Taxes: Lowest 20 Percent (1st to 20th Percentile)

For each time period represented in the tables, complete income reporters are ranked in ascending order, according to the level of total before-tax income reported by the consumer unit. The ranking is then divided into five equal groups. Incomplete income reporters are not ranked and are shown separately. For more details about the data or the survey, visit the FAQs (https://www.bls.gov/cex/csxfaqs.htm).