I am not really sure how to interpret this table?
First of all, it's based on equivalised data. So a single person living on their own earning €1,000 a week is in the top decile. A married man earning €1,000 a week, with a wife at home, has his income equivalised to €602 which puts him in the 8th decile.
The thresholds for the different deciles seem very low
Someone earning €35,000 a year is in the top decile? Seems wrong to me.
The Top 30% are earning over €23,660 a year - again this is meaningless to me.
So can we answer this question:
"the Top 30% of people pay taxes, and the bottom 60% are net recipients. "
The Revenue's statistical report tells us that that the top 10% of
earners , those earning over €75,000, pay 55% of all income tax and USC.
But the top 10% of earners would be a smaller proportion of the overall population. There are 2,049,617
cases in the Revenue's data. 800,000 of these cases are married couples, so the 2 million cases, represents 2.8m adults. How many adults are there in Ireland?