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[Straight Vermonter]

 

Comparing the Total Tax Burden in Each State to Just the State/Local Tax Burden

 

Each state’s total tax burden represents a combination of federal, state, and local tax burdens. It can be instructive, however, to strip out federal taxes and compare just the tax burdens of states and localities.

The 33 links below display tables that compare total taxes as a percentage of income for each state to state/local taxes as a percentage of income, ranked in order, for the years 1971 to 2002.

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Effective State and Local Tax Burdens by State and Rank
Calendar Year 2002

	State and Local			Total
	Tax Burden	Rank		Tax Burden	Rank	Change in Ranking
Total	10.2%			32.1%
Maine	12.8%	1	Maine	32.7%	11	-10
New York	12.3%	2	New York	34.7%	3	-1
Wisconsin	12.0%	3	Wisconsin	33.2%	6	-3
Hawaii	11.6%	4	Hawaii	30.9%	30	-26
Minnesota	11.3%	5	Minnesota	32.9%	7	-2
Rhode Island	11.3%	6	Rhode Island	32.5%	13	-7
Arkansas	11.3%	7	Arkansas	31.2%	26	-19
Utah	11.2%	8	Utah	31.2%	27	-19
Ohio	11.2%	9	Ohio	31.6%	20	-11
Vermont	11.0%	10	Vermont	32.1%	16	-6
Connecticut	10.9%	11	Connecticut	36.7%	1	10
New Mexico	10.9%	12	New Mexico	30.4%	34	-22
Nebraska	10.8%	13	Nebraska	31.6%	19	-6
Michigan	10.7%	14	Michigan	32.8%	8	6
Mississippi	10.7%	15	Mississippi	29.8%	43	-28
Louisiana	10.5%	16	Louisiana	30.1%	41	-25
Idaho	10.5%	17	Idaho	30.3%	37	-20
Kentucky	10.5%	18	Kentucky	30.2%	39	-21
West Virginia	10.5%	19	West Virginia	29.1%	48	-29
Washington	10.5%	20	Washington	35.6%	2	18
Kansas	10.4%	21	Kansas	31.4%	23	-2
Iowa	10.4%	22	Iowa	30.6%	32	-10
New Jersey	10.3%	23	New Jersey	34.3%	4	19
California	10.3%	24	California	32.7%	10	14
Georgia	10.2%	25	Georgia	31.4%	22	3
North Dakota	10.2%	26	North Dakota	29.5%	45	-19
Delaware	10.2%	27	Delaware	31.7%	17	10
Arizona	10.1%	28	Arizona	31.7%	18	10
North Carolina	10.1%	29	North Carolina	30.4%	35	-6
South Carolina	10.0%	30	South Carolina	30.2%	40	-10
Illinois	10.0%	31	Illinois	32.8%	9	22
Montana	10.0%	32	Montana	29.8%	42	-10
Oklahoma	9.9%	33	Oklahoma	29.0%	49	-16
Indiana	9.9%	34	Indiana	30.9%	31	3
Pennsylvania	9.9%	35	Pennsylvania	31.1%	28	7
Wyoming	9.8%	36	Wyoming	34.1%	5	31
Maryland	9.7%	37	Maryland	31.1%	29	8
Missouri	9.7%	38	Missouri	30.2%	38	0
Massachusetts	9.5%	39	Massachusetts	32.6%	12	27
Virginia	9.4%	40	Virginia	31.3%	25	15
Oregon	9.4%	41	Oregon	30.5%	33	8
Florida	9.3%	42	Florida	32.2%	15	27
Nevada	9.2%	43	Nevada	32.3%	14	29
South Dakota	9.1%	44	South Dakota	29.7%	44	0
Colorado	9.1%	45	Colorado	31.3%	24	21
Alabama	9.1%	46	Alabama	29.1%	47	-1
Texas	9.0%	47	Texas	30.4%	36	11
New Hampshire	8.6%	48	New Hampshire	31.6%	21	27
Tennessee	8.4%	49	Tennessee	29.2%	46	3
Alaska	6.3%	50	Alaska	27.0%	50	0
District of Columbia	13.9%	-		37.6%

 

 

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[Straight Vermonter]

I ran across this today and thought FReepers might be interested.

[firewalk]

Thanks for posting this. It's another reason I can't wait to move out of NJ.

[Black Agnes]

Somebody's gotta ping those TN freepers, TN is at the bottom of both!

[TN Republican]

And many that you don't know (just kidding, you know).

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Sorry to rub this in your face, but Pennsylvania beat Georgia...............lol

[Koblenz]

The first column is more important than the second. CT is first in the second because we pay more federal taxes, because the average income is higher and thus there's some bracket creep going on. Moving isn't going to help you necessarily. But the first column shows which states tax the most.

[dts32041]

Gee Look atr the home of those rino's Snowe and Collins and Cohen.

Now I remeber why I left, look at that tax burden.

BTW Check out DC, shows you what dedicated rats can do.

[FreedomAvatar]

Way to go, Ohio. An overcast tax hell with a RINO gov.

[anniegetyourgun]

I gotta move to TN. Geez....

[Black Agnes]

Do a search for tn or tenn, they're trying to get state income tax passed. This will obviously affect their ranking!

[anniegetyourgun]

Could be worse...you could be from here where we're #2 and all politics is run by left-wing liberal democrat unions and their governor.

[RetiredArmy]

Well, with our Red Chinese governor, a socialist democrat if there ever was one, who just introduced a new $20 billion transportation plan over the next 8 years, we are now #2. Next year I am sure we will vault to #1. Washington state sucks. I cannot wait till my wife retires from her job in 5 years and we can move to Wyoming. Home of VP Dick Cheney.

[anniegetyourgun]

See....they need more conservatives to move there....

[anniegetyourgun]

This really is a liberal cesspool. I keep waiting for E. Washington to seceed, but I guess it ain't gonna happen.

[Looper]

What are Washington's sales and property taxes? They must be out of sight because you don't have income tax (or do you)?

[TN Republican]

And we're trying to keep it that way!

http://www.tntaxrevolt.org
http://www.taxfreetennessee.com
Tennessee Conservative Union TNCU.org

[giznort]

Wisconsin is one of the highest taxed, yet I'm at a loss as what to show for it. Well, they DO bus the inner city folk out of Milwaukee to jobs in outlying underpaying communnities. One would think with all this revenue that they wouldn't have to have closed down the waysides (with restrooms) along public highways. Nothing else says "Welcome To Wisconsin" like closed public waysides along the highways!

[TomServo]

..they're trying to get state income tax passed..

More of us aren't.

[giznort]

Just exactly WHERE does the Wisconsin tax money go? We're running at a mega deficit this year. Gee, what do ya think they're gonna do to take care of the deficit? Any guesses? Maybe we'll be #1 next year. Hey, Hillary, come here....want some money?