Do you know the true cost of your taxes?
Outlining state and local tax collections per capita in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, the Tax Foundation’s report on state and local tax rankings shows that Oregon fares along the lower end of the tax spectrum.
With an average total of $4,508, the state’s tax collection is ranked as twenty-fourth in the country.
The five states with the highest tax collections per capita are New York ($8,957), Connecticut ($7,220), New Jersey ($6,709), North Dakota ($6,630), and Massachusetts ($6,469). The five states with the lowest tax collections per capita are Alabama ($3,206), Tennessee ($3,322), South Carolina ($3,435), Oklahoma ($3,458), and Florida ($3,478).
“While some of these results speak for themselves, others are less intuitive,” says Katherine Loughead of the Tax Foundation. “For example, as a resource-rich state, North Dakota generates a substantial share of its tax revenue from severance taxes on oil and natural gas, the burden of which is borne mainly by consumers outside North Dakota. As a result, in terms of tax collections per capita, North Dakota joins the ranks of the high-tax states in the Northeast even though North Dakota’s tax burden is comparatively low.”
Read more about the study here: https://taxfoundation.org/state-local-tax-collections-per-capita-2019
