State tax levels in the United States

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State tax levels indicate both the tax burden and the services a state can afford to provide residents.

States use a different combination of sales, income, excise taxes, and user fees. Some are levied directly from residents and others are levied indirectly. This table ranks the states of the United States on a per capita basis.

Note, however, that this table does not necessarily reflect the actual tax burdens borne directly by individual persons or businesses in a state. For example, the direct state tax burden on individuals in Alaska is far lower than the table would indicate. The state has no direct personal income tax and does not collect a sales tax at the state level, although it allows local governments to collect their own sales taxes. Alaska collects most of its revenue from corporate taxes on the oil and gas industry.

Note also that this table does not take into consideration the taxing and spending of local governments within states, which can vary widely, and sometimes disproportionately with state tax burdens.

States

State government tax collections, 2011

Rank	State	Total state taxes ($ thousands)	Population (2013 est.)	State taxes per capita ($)
1	California	116,695,285	37,691,912	3,096.03
2	New York	67,945,152	19,465,197	3,490.60
3	Texas	43,188,251	25,674,681	1,682.13
4	Florida	32,557,946	19,057,542	1,708.40
5	Pennsylvania	32,352,286	12,742,886	2,538.85
6	Illinois	29,433,475	12,869,257	2,287.12
7	New Jersey	27,182,753	8,821,155	3,081.54
8	Ohio	25,176,562	11,544,951	2,180.74
9	Michigan	23,540,253	9,876,187	2,383.54
10	North Carolina	22,405,841	9,656,401	2,320.31
11	Massachusetts	22,089,530	6,587,536	3,353.23
12	Minnesota	18,952,919	5,344,861	3,546.01
13	Washington	17,411,033	6,830,038	2,549.19
14	Virginia	17,409,072	8,096,604	2,150.17
15	Georgia	16,003,250	9,815,210	1,630.45
16	Maryland	16,002,529	5,828,289	2,745.66
17	Wisconsin	15,347,327	5,711,767	2,686.97
18	Indiana	14,909,416	6,516,922	2,287.80
19	Connecticut	13,432,252	3,580,709	3,751.28
20	Tennessee	10,858,935	6,403,353	1,695.82
21	Arizona	10,848,179	6,482,505	1,673.45
22	Kentucky	10,203,241	4,369,356	2,335.18
23	Missouri	10,109,918	6,010,688	1,681.99
24	Colorado	9,467,684	5,116,796	1,850.31
25	Louisiana	8,865,421	4,574,836	1,937.87
26	Alabama	8,635,527	4,802,740	1,798.04
27	Oregon	8,112,049	3,871,859	2,095.13
28	Oklahoma	7,766,332	3,791,508	2,048.35
29	Arkansas	7,737,552	2,937,979	2,633.63
30	South Carolina	7,687,496	4,679,230	1,642.90
31	Iowa	7,236,476	3,062,309	2,363.08
32	Kansas	6,828,477	2,871,238	2,378.23
33	Mississippi	6,714,180	2,978,512	2,254.21
34	Nevada	6,332,128	2,723,322	2,325.15
35	Alaska	5,537,679	722,718	7,662.30
36	Utah	5,475,904	2,817,222	1,943.72
37	West Virginia	5,142,771	1,855,364	2,771.84
38	New Mexico	4,980,115	2,082,224	2,391.73
39	Hawaii	4,857,729	1,374,810	3,533.38
40	Nebraska	4,153,113	1,842,641	2,253.89
41	North Dakota	3,822,347	683,932	5,588.78
42	Maine	3,675,810	1,328,188	2,767.54
43	Idaho	3,261,722	1,584,985	2,057.89
44	Delaware	3,017,837	907,135	3,326.78
45	Rhode Island	2,737,952	1,051,302	2,604.34
46	Vermont	2,687,926	626,431	4,290.86
47	Wyoming	2,461,977	568,158	4,333.26
48	New Hampshire	2,320,014	1,318,194	1,759.99
49	Montana	2,303,516	998,199	2,307.67
50	South Dakota	1,379,607	824,082	1,674.11
Total		757,254,745	310,973,921	2,435.11

See also

State taxes:

• Sales taxes in the United States
• State income tax

Federal:

• Income tax in the United States
• Federal tax revenue by state
• Federal spending and taxation across states

General:

• Taxation in the United States

External links

• State Tax Revenue by Tax Type: 1994 - 2010
• Local taxes per capita