Stats on CEO pay compared to median worker pay assume that nobody facing a 90% marginal tax rate would *dream* of lying to the IRS. It's a touching reflection of how much we trust the CEOs of multinational corporations to always do the right thing.
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Ah brain skipped a few steps in the chain; I was thinking back to peak marginal rate era in the US not forecasting future behavior at similar marginal rates.
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There have been some changes in the US tax code that make it more efficient to recognize income as taxable income (both lower marginal rates and more scrutiny of perks). You can see the jump in *pretax* income inequality from the 1986 tax reform, for example.
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