New Jersey is #1!
Don’t get excited… we’re not talking about football (Favre or not, I can’t get behind the Jets**. Go Eagles!). We’re talking about tax.
According to the Tax Foundation, New Jersey residents paid the highest percentage of state and local taxes. Folks from New Jersey paid a whopping 11.8% of income in state and local taxes, more than 2% above the national average.
New York residents just eked out a second place finish, paying 11.7%.
Rounding out the top:
3, Connecticut: 11.1%
4, Maryland: 10.8%
5, Hawaii: 10.6%
6, California: 10.5%
7, Ohio: 10.4%
8, Vermont: 10.3%
9, Wisconsin: 10.2% (tie)
9, Rhode Island: 10.2% (tie)
9, Pennsylvania: 10.2% (tie)
9, Minnesota: 10.2% (tie)
The states that paid the lowest rates are:
1, Alaska: 6.4%
2, Nevada: 6.6%
3, Wyoming: 7.0%
4, Florida: 7.4%
5, New Hampshire: 7.6%
6, South Dakota: 7.9%
7, Tennessee: 8.3%
8, Louisiana: 8.4% (tie)
8, Texas 8.4% (tie)
10, Arizona: 8.5%
You can read the entire report - including historical trends, collections and information about individual state systems - by clicking here - it’s downloadable as a pdf.
** Yes, yes, yes. The Jets are really the New York Jets. But they play in New Jersey. And their fans are from Jersey. I think New Yorkers support that other team.
