30,417,609 Paid $0 Income Taxes, Got $89.6 Billion Back

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Terence P. Jeffrey | December 20, 2017 | 5:39 AM EST

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Of the 150,493,263 filers who submitted individual income tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service for the 2015 tax year, only 99,040,729 paid any income tax at all.

Together, those Americans paid a record $1,457,891,441,000 in total income taxes — for an average of $14,720 per taxpayer.

The other 51,452,534 — or about 34.2 percent of all filers — did not pay a penny. Their average income tax payment was $0.