Claim: For people in the top 1 percent for income, "your effective tax burden is in the low 20s, the lowest it's been in decades and decades and decades -- lower than somebody who might make substantially less money."
Fact-check: Geithner says the top 1 percent have a tax rate in the low 20s
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Jeffrey Good
Date published: 2011-07-12T00:00:00