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Tax Foundation Study: New Jersey Edges New York for Nation's Highest State-Local Tax Burden
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In Tax Foundation Special Report, No. 163, "State-Local Tax Burdens Dip As Income Growth Outpaces Tax Growth," senior economist
The nation as a whole paid 9.7% of its income in state-local taxes, down from 9.9% in 2007 primarily because income grew faster than tax collections between 2007 and 2008.
Alaskans pay the least, 6.4 percent in 2008, but
Tax Foundation rankings are sometimes confused with rankings based on Census Bureau's tallies of state and local tax collections. The difference is out-of-state tax payments. When state and local governments collect large amounts from non-residents, whether as tourists, commuters, businesses or property owners, Census counts those payments in the collections of the taxing state; the Tax Foundation study counts them in the residential state of the taxpayer.
The most recent estimates are for fiscal year 2008 which ended
Historical data and rankings, sorted by year and by state, are available to reporters on an embargoed basis. At
The Tax Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that has monitored fiscal policy at the federal, state and local levels since 1937.
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