From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rhm
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: taxing the unemployed - (nf)
Article-I.D.: alice.1197
Posted: Fri Nov 26 19:42:48 1982
Received: Sat Nov 27 02:57:33 1982
References: sri-unix.4410


Indeed, according to the most recent tabulation by the IRS (for the
tax year 1980), there was only one taxpayer with income over a million
dollars who also collected unemployment.

Nonetheless, it seems a bit odd that it was tax-free income for him/her.

The tax structure is sufficiently progressive that taxation of
unemployment income is most likely to hit hardest on fairly high-income
couples where one spouse in unemployed part of the year.