Table V.

The impact of evasion on top income shares

Reported dataFraud-adjusted data
Top 10 (%)Top 1 (%)Top 10 (%)Top 1 (%)
200134.99.840.412.9
200234.29.536.910.9
200334.510.036.210.8
200434.410.238.912.9

Note:

The top 10 and 1% here refer to population over 20, following Alvaredo and Saez (2009) 

Source: Reported data from Alvaredo and Saez (2009), fraud-adjusted data from the author’s calculations

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