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How is reported income distributed?

In 2024, about 47.1 in every 100 taxpayers reported total income of up to 20,000 euros. These are the tax returns filed in 2025.

Statistics on income tax returns from the MEF Dipartimento delle Finanze. They count taxpayers, that is people who filed a return or received a Certificazione Unica (the annual statement from an employer or pension fund): not all residents. A source separate from the BDAP catalogue.

Question 1 of 3

Taxpayers with total income up to €20,000, 2024 tax year47.1%Out of 42,837,963 taxpayers: less than half. The returns were filed in 2025.

These are taxpayers, not all residents. Total income includes rents taxed under the cedolare secca (the flat tax on rents) and excludes income reported in form LM, that is the flat-rate and advantageous regimes: people with only that income count in the lowest class.

Taxpayers by total-income band, 2024, people in published counts

  1. Total taxpayers42,837,963
  2. Up to €20,00020,188,743Total in the band: between 20,188,865 and 20,189,693 taxpayers. Possible share: 47.1%.

    MEF classes included: from «minore di -1.000» to «da 15.000 a 20.000» (17 classes). Taxpayers: between 20,188,865 and 20,189,693, because the MEF does not publish some cells with few taxpayers.

  3. Over 20,000, up to €35,00014,604,142Share of the band: 34.1%.

    MEF classes included: from «da 20.000 a 26.000» to «da 29.000 a 35.000» (3 classes). Taxpayers: 14,604,142.

  4. Over 35,000, up to €50,0004,764,833Share of the band: 11.1%.

    MEF classes included: from «da 35.000 a 40.000» to «da 40.000 a 50.000» (2 classes). Taxpayers: 4,764,833.

  5. Over 50,000, up to €100,0002,528,859Total in the band: between 2,528,859 and 2,529,694 taxpayers. Possible share: 5.9%.

    MEF classes included: from «da 50.000 a 55.000» to «da 90.000 a 100.000» (7 classes). Taxpayers: between 2,528,859 and 2,529,694, because the MEF does not publish some cells with few taxpayers.

  6. Over €100,000750,429Total in the band: between 750,429 and 751,264 taxpayers. Possible share: 1.8%.

    MEF classes included: from «da 100.000 a 120.000» to «oltre 300.000» (5 classes). Taxpayers: between 750,429 and 751,264, because the MEF does not publish some cells with few taxpayers.

Number of taxpayers

The bars show the published counts. For a small number of taxpayers the exact band is unknown; the total includes them. Open a band to see its possible range.

Details, method and source

The total includes 957 taxpayers whom we cannot allocate precisely to the bands. This is the difference calculated by the portal between the official total and the published counts, not a sixth income band.

Portal calculation on the 34 official MEF total-income classes, grouped into five bands that do not overlap: up to 20,000 euros; over 20,000 up to 35,000; over 35,000 up to 50,000; over 50,000 up to 100,000; over 100,000. The thresholds are MEF class limits, so no class is split between two bands. Shares are percentages of all taxpayers in the tax year. The MEF does not publish some cells with few taxpayers: they are not zeros. For each age group the portal subtracts the published counts from the official total and assigns the remainder once to the set of hidden cells; a band’s count then becomes an interval, and its share shows both ends when they differ.

Income by class and age: original CSV ↗ · Totals by age: original CSV ↗ · MEF definitions and analysis (PDF) ↗

  1. Question 2 of 3

    How does declared income vary with age?

    Median class for taxpayers aged 45 to 64, 2024 tax year€20,000 to 26,000The mean can be calculated only where the MEF publishes every amount: Ages 25 to 44, €21,102; Ages 45 to 64, €29,192.

    The median is the income of the person in the middle: half of taxpayers report less, half report more. The mean is total income divided by the number of taxpayers. The MEF publishes how many people are in each class, not each person’s income: so the thresholds for 10%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 90% are possible classes with their limits, not exact amounts.

    Total-income classes by age, 2024, euros a year

    1. Ages 0 to 14median 0 to 1,000Mean not available: the MEF does not publish every amount for this age group.
    2. Ages 15 to 24median 4,000 to 5,000Mean not available: the MEF does not publish every amount for this age group.
    3. Ages 25 to 44median 15,000 to 20,000Mean €21,102 (portal calculation).
    4. Ages 45 to 64median 20,000 to 26,000Mean €29,192 (portal calculation).
    5. Ages 65+median 20,000 to 26,000Mean not available: the MEF does not publish every amount for this age group.

    Annual declared income (€)

    The line runs from the lower limit of the class containing the 10% threshold to the upper limit of the class containing the 90% threshold (the middle 80%); the box does the same from the 25% to the 75% threshold (the middle 50%). These are class limits, not the lowest or highest income. Same scale for every age group.

    Details, method and source

    Portal calculation on MEF counts by class and age. A quantile falls in the first class where taxpayers counted from the lowest income reach its share of the total (10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 90%). Where the MEF does not publish some cells the cumulative count is an interval, and the quantile can fall in several neighbouring classes: the page shows from the lower limit of the first to the upper limit of the last. The highest class is open: its upper limit is not known, and the portal does not invent one. The mean is MEF total income («Reddito complessivo - Ammontare in euro») summed over all classes of the age group and divided by «Numero contribuenti»; the portal calculates it only where the MEF publishes every amount and every count for that age group. It includes rents taxed under cedolare secca and excludes income reported in form LM.

    Income by class and age: original CSV ↗ · Totals by age: original CSV ↗ · MEF definitions and analysis (PDF) ↗

  2. Question 3 of 3

    Which income class contains a reported income?

    The official total-income classes, 2024 tax year34 classesFrom «minore di -1.000» to «oltre 300.000» euros, of different widths; the last one has no upper limit.

    The income you type stays on this page: it does not go into the address, it is not saved and it is not sent anywhere. The result gives the official MEF class that contains it, not where you are inside the class or how many people report less than you.

    Type an annual total income, even zero or negative, to see the MEF class that contains it.

    Total income is the income declared before IRPEF. It is not the same as gross salary, take-home pay or turnover.

    Details, method and source

    Classes have fixed limits. In the positive ones the lower limit is excluded and the upper one included: €20,000 is in «da 15.000 a 20.000», €20,001 in «da 20.000 a 26.000». «zero» is only zero; «da -1.000 a 0» runs from −1,000 included to zero excluded. Total income is before IRPEF: it is not gross salary, take-home pay or turnover.

    Optional search on the limits of the 34 official MEF total-income classes, latest published tax year. For the class found the page gives how many taxpayers of all ages it has (an interval where the MEF does not publish some cells) and its mean income, that is the MEF amount divided by taxpayers: a portal calculation, shown only where the MEF publishes every cell of the class. No position inside the class is estimated and no personal tax is calculated.

    Income by class and age: original CSV ↗ · Totals by age: original CSV ↗ · MEF definitions and analysis (PDF) ↗ · Download the page data (JSON) ↓

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