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Facts and Figures 2019: How Does Your State Compare?

1 min readBy: Janelle Fritts

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How do taxes in your state compare nationally? Facts and Figures, a resource we’ve provided to U.S. taxpayers and legislators since 1941, compares the 50 states on over 40 measures of taxing and spending.

Browse the PDF below or download the Facts and Figures app to explore data on state individual and corporate income taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, property taxes, business taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. climates, and more.

For visualizations and further analysis of this data, explore our weekly tax maps.

Erratum: A previous edition of this report contained errors in Table 9, 28, and 30.

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Janelle Fritts Tax Foundation
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Janelle Fritts

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Janelle Fritts is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Tax Foundation’s Center for State Tax Policy. She is the lead researcher on the annual State Tax Competitiveness Index and serves as a resource to policymakers in their efforts to modernize and improve the structures of their state tax codes. Her work has been cited in The New York Times, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, and numerous state media outlets across the country.

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