Monday, November 22, 2010

California Taxes Compared

California is reputed to be a high tax state. So I've prepared some tables to show whether or not this true. The bottom line is that California taxes are higher than most other states, but not by much. Here are two tables: the first shows the tax rate in dollars per million dollars of state GDP, the second shows tax rate per capita, both sorted in order from high to low.

State Tax per $Million GDP
State Tax per Capita
Alaska 103,384.2
Alaska 7,136
Vermont 98,485.4
Wyoming 5,316
Wyoming 78,267.1
Vermont 3,840
West Virginia 77,676.7
North Dakota 3,792
North Dakota 77,352.3
Connecticut 3,614
Arkansas 75,944.3
Hawaii 3,515
Hawaii 73,811.6
New York 3,345
Mississippi 70,980.9
Delaware 3,173
Maine 70,190.6
Minnesota 3,166
Montana 67,075.3
New Jersey 3,015
Minnesota 65,290.1
Massachusetts 2,930
Kentucky 62,361.2
California 2,653
Michigan 61,579.8
West Virginia 2,618
New Mexico 60,721.3
Arkansas 2,597
Wisconsin 60,270.2
Maine 2,571
Idaho 60,133.5
Maryland 2,562
Connecticut 59,801.9
Wisconsin 2,530
Indiana 58,463.7
Washington 2,508
New Jersey 57,242.6
Montana 2,485
New York 56,820.4
New Mexico 2,450
Oklahoma 55,724.0
Pennsylvania 2,390
Maryland 55,342.4
Kansas 2,386
California 54,694.5
Indiana 2,331
Rhode Island 54,602.3
Iowa 2,320
Kansas 54,547.2
Rhode Island 2,316
Pennsylvania 54,348.7
United States 2,305
Massachusetts 53,379.5
Kentucky 2,287
Iowa 51,467.8
Oklahoma 2,272
North Carolina 51,215.7
Ilinois 2,266
Washington 50,836.3
Nebraska 2,262
Ohio 50,799.6
Michigan 2,259
United States 50,486.6
North Carolina 2,193
Utah 49,398.9
Mississippi 2,192
Alabama 48,857.4
Louisiana 2,171
Nebraska 48,046.1
Idaho 2,090
Ilinois 46,186.7
Utah 2,090
Oregon 45,920.4
Ohio 2,069
South Carolina 45,695.4
Nevada 2,068
Delaware 45,384.5
Virginia 2,022
Arizona 45,200.4
Oregon 1,957
Louisiana 45,066.7
Alabama 1,807
Missouri 43,504.5
Colorado 1,797
Florida 42,945.8
Missouri 1,747
Nevada 42,399.2
South Dakota 1,696
Tennessee 41,417.8
Arizona 1,695
Virginia 40,801.2
Georgia 1,677
Georgia 40,421.6
Tennessee 1,676
South Dakota 36,089.6
Florida 1,660
New Hampshire 35,425.7
Texas 1,655
Colorado 34,926.5
South Carolina 1,607
Texas 33,335.9
New Hampshire 1,534

Here are links to spreadsheets for these tables:
Full data for comparison of states by tax rate per $Million GDP: Here
Full data for comparison of states by tax rate per capita: Here
Comparison of states by rate per $Million GDP (left table above): Here
Comparison of states by rate per Capita (right table above): Here