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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s Statistics of Income program provides comprehensive data and statistics on the federal tax system. Data produced by the Division underpin the analytical work that supports federal budget and tax policy formulation. Statistics and analyses, disseminated on www.irs.gov/taxstats, provide researchers, the media, businesses and ordinary citizens unbiased information to better understand current and proposed tax law changes and their effects on the economy. As one of 13 principal agencies in the decentralized U.S. statistical system, SOI also collaborates to improve the timeliness, utility and cost effectiveness of statistical information produced throughout the federal government. This special edition of the Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics focusing on the SOI program is primarily intended to showcase recent work and suggest new directions for the Division’s future. SOI has recently celebrated its 100th year, so it is especially appropriate to look back briefly at its history, sketch where SOI is now and consider where SOI seems to be heading. SOI is not unique in its evolution or in the challenges it currently faces, and so it is hoped that these pages will serve not just to recognize its 100th anniversary, but more importantly, to suggest ideas that will help other producers of official statistics evolve. As the papers that follow demonstrate, SOI’s processes and SOI products have evolved over time and continue to do so. Below, I will briefly outline SOI’s progress from its inception in the early 20th Century to present. Papers that follow will highlight the application of statistical techniques to improve the quality, timeliness and coverage of statistical estimates derived from SOI samples of tax returns. The increased availability of large administrative datasets of tax and personal information afforded by increased electronic filing of personal and business tax information are providing opportunities to reexamine SOI products and processes. Some early fruits of these efforts are presented, as well as some plans for proposed future uses. On a personal note, as a former Director of Statistics of Income, I am proud to have been associated with SOI for more than 17 of my 31 plus years of Federal service. In fact, I worked at SOI twice: first as a 20something statistician in the early 1960s, where I produced the first comprehensive SOI estimates of personal wealth using data from federal estate tax returns, and second returning in 1982 as the SOI Director. I continue my close association with SOI as a member of an advisory board that helps ensure that data users’ perspectives are represented in the Division’s planning efforts. Given my long association, please forgive the sometimes-personal nature of what follows.

SOI at 100: Traditionally enumerative, now more and more analytic