---
title: "Unhappy Tax Day"
description: "<a href=\"/databank/dailynumber/?NumberID=299\"><img src=\"/assets/misc/irsicon.gif\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px;border:0px\" alt=\"IRS\" /></a>Nearly half (48%) of Americans, many of whom will be struggling to meet today's deadline for filing with the IRS,  say they think the tax system is either completely (19%) or mostly (29%) unfair to people like them, slightly fewer than said so in 2002."
date: "2008-04-04"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2008/04/04/unhappy-tax-day/"
---

# Unhappy Tax Day

Nearly half (48%) of Americans, many of whom will be struggling to meet today’s deadline for filing with the IRS,say they think the tax system is either completely (19%) or mostly (29%) unfair to people like them — slightly fewer than the 53% who said so in 2002. The entire decline came among those deeming the tax system completely unfair.[Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/434/trends-in-political-values-and-core-attitudes-1987-2007)