Distibution of pre-tax top personal incomes

Authors

  • Brian Easton

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v11i1.4527

Keywords:

Inland Revenue (IRD, market incomes, New Zealand Superannuation, Pareto coefficient, Piketty thesis, New Zealand tax residents

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present some data on top  pre-tax personal incomes in New Zealand. It updates an earlier article by a year to 2011/12 and extends the estimates in it back to 1936/37. The background to this article is the international database of incomes assembled by Facundo Alvaredo, Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez (Alvaredo et al., 2013), which reports their estimates for New Zealand of the pre-tax personal income shares of top income groups based on published Inland Revenue (IRD) sources. 

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Policy Quarterly volume 11 issue 1 2015

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2015-02-01

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2015): Policy Quarterly

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