Tax Day has come and gone, but for many lower-income Americans, the financial impact of paying taxes will continue past the filing deadline.
Because of this, almost half of Americans (45%) believe that low-income citizens pay “too much” in taxes, according to a recent Gallup poll.
In the last five years, the number has increased by about five percentage points. The most recent increase is due in large part to an increasing number of Republicans saying that low-income Americans are paying too much on taxes.
One-third of Republicans now feel this way, an increase from 25% last year. More Democrats also feel this way, up from 52% last year to 57% this year.
However, there has also been an increase over the last decade in the number of Americans that don’t think low-income earners pay enough in taxes. Ten percent of respondents felt this way in 2005, then five years late in 2010 it jumped to 22%.
This year 21% of respondents said that low-income earners pay “too little” in taxes.
There is even more of an opinion gap when it comes to the amount of taxes paid by middle class America.
Only 6% of Americans feel that middle-income earners don’t pay enough in taxes, but almost half (46%) say that middle-income earners pay too much.
Majority of respondents (62%) felt that the upper-income earners do not pay enough in taxes, a number that has always been more than half since this survey began in 1992.
Eleven percent of respondents said that high-income earners pay too much in taxes.
This research was from the annual Economy and Personal Finance survey by Gallup.
The data this year was collected from April 9-12 from a sample of more than 1,000 American adults from all across the U.S.
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