Excel Viewer Adobe® Reader Statistics of Income (SOI) Bulletin - Spring 2019 PDF Featured articles Sole Proprietorship Returns, Tax Year 2016 PDF by Adrian Dungan For Tax Year 2016, taxpayers reported nonfarm sole proprietorship activity on approximately 25.5 million individual income tax returns, a 1.2-percent increase from 2015. Profits fell to $328.2 billion in 2016, a 1.1-percent decrease from the previous year. In constant dollars, total nonfarm sole proprietorship profits decreased 2.4 percent in 2016. Total profits as a percentage of business receipts were 23.1 percent for 2016, the second highest level in this data series which begins in 1988. The largest percentage increase in profits was reported by the arts, entertainment and recreation sector which increased 19.6 percent or $1.9 billion. Excel Tables: 1 XLS, 2 XLS, 3 XLS Related Link: Nonfarm Sole Proprietorship Statistics Partnership Returns, 2016 PDF By Ron DeCarlo and Nina Shumofsky The number of partnerships in the United States continued to increase for Tax Year 2016. Partnerships filed more than 3.7 million returns for the year, representing more than 28 million partners. The real estate and leasing sector contained almost half of all partnerships (49.9 percent) and over a quarter of all partners (29.7 percent). Excel Tables: By Sector or Industry, By Entity Type, By Size of Total Assets Related Link: Partnership Statistics Departments SOI Sampling Methodology and Data Limitations Upcoming SOI Data Releases Historical Tables and Appendix
