Chart of the Day: Which States Collect the Most in Income Taxes
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Chart of the Day: Which States Collect the Most in Income Taxes

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The Tax Foundation’s Katherine Loughead looks at per capita state and local individual income tax collections:

"On average, state and local governments collected $1,144 per person from individual income taxes, but collections varied widely from state to state. States collecting the most in per capita state and local individual income taxes were New York ($2,789), Connecticut ($2,279), and Maryland ($2,200). The lowest per capita individual income tax collections occurred in the states that tax dividend and interest income but not wage income: Tennessee ($46) and New Hampshire ($72). Of the states that tax wage income, lowest per capita collections occurred in Louisiana ($639), Mississippi ($596), and Arizona ($551)."

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