![]() If you are one of the many taxpayers who pay state income tax, the IRS allows you to claim a deduction on your federal tax return for them. Some states even have tax laws that automatically adjust tax brackets and rates for inflation. Generally, though, state income tax laws are more simplified than the federal tax code, with fewer tax brackets and lower tax rates. This requires that your income be taxed in various brackets at different rates that increase as your annual income increases. The majority of the remaining 36 states and the District of Columbia have an income tax framework that resembles the federal government's. According to data compiled by the Tax Foundation, however, residents of the states with no income tax consistently bear a lower total per capita tax burden than those who live in states that impose an income tax. ![]() The lack of an income tax is not to say that the citizens of these states don’t pay any tax to the state-residents in each of these states have to pay a variety of other common state taxes including a sales tax, a gasoline tax, a cigarette tax and property taxes. These are Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. There are also eight states that don’t impose an income tax at all. And if you earn $1 million, you still only pay 3.07 percent or $30,700. This means that if you earn $100,000 in Pennsylvania, you only pay $3,070 in state income tax. In 2022 for example, the flat state income tax rates ranged from 3.07 percent in Pennsylvania to 5.25 percent in North Carolina. A flat tax, sometimes called a fair tax, levies the same rate on all income levels. These include Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Utah. ![]() ![]() Just ten states have a flat tax rate on incomes. However, a minority of states impose the income tax at a flat rate on all taxpayers or they don’t even charge the tax at all. Although each state has the authority to create its own system of imposing the tax, most jurisdictions use a similar structure as the federal government. Just like the federal government, states impose additional income taxes on your earnings if you have a sufficient connection to the state. ![]()
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