Timeliness of the Statistics of Income

PAD-77-3 Published: Oct 20, 1976. Publicly Released: Oct 20, 1976.

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Statistics of Income (SOI) publication schedules have considerable built-in lag. The generous schedules often are not met even by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

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