50-State Tax Maps

By Nicole Kaeding of the Tax Foundation FISCAL FACT No. 497: State Corporate Income Tax Rates and Brackets for 2016 (PDF) State Corporate Income Tax Rates and Brackets for 2016 (EXCEL) Key Findings: Forty-four states levy a corporate income tax. Rates range … Read More

From the Tax Foundation: State-Local Tax Burden Rankings FY 2012 (PDF) Full State-Local Tax Burden Data State-Local Tax Burden Rankings: Methodology Key Findings During the 2012 fiscal year, state-local tax burdens as a share of state incomes decreased on average … Read More

By Nicole Kaeding of the Tax Foundation FISCAL FACT No. 500: State Individual Income Tax Rates and Brackets for 2016 (PDF) State Individual Income Tax Rates and Brackets for 2016 (EXCEL) Key Findings Individual income taxes are a major source of state … Read More

Rich States, Poor States, 8th Edition by Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, Jonathan Williams & Stephen Moore Introduction Throughout the country, states are looking for ways to energize their economies and become more competitive. Each state confronts this task with a … Read More

From the national Tax Foundation State-Local Tax Burden Rankings FY 2012 (PDF) Full State-Local Tax Burden Data Key Findings During the 2012 fiscal year, state-local tax burdens as a share of state incomes decreased on average across the U.S. Average … Read More

By Jared Walczak of the Tax Foundation [Editor’s Note:  The Federal Government spends more in Hawaii than it gets from taxes on Hawaii residents and businesses.  According to this Wikipedia article, Uncle Sam received $7.7 billion from Hawaii and spent $10.7 billion … Read More

[Editor’s Note:  Hawaii generally conforms to the federal carryforward and carryback provisions, and does not have significant limitations like a dollar cap that some states have.] By Jared Walczak of the Tax Foundation When businesses suffer losses in a calendar year, well-structured … Read More

By Scott Drenkard of the Tax Foundation One important, common-sense taxpayer protection built into the federal income tax code is inflation indexing. Inflation indexing means that tax brackets (and other important dollar-amount features of the individual income tax, like standard deductions or … Read More

[Editor’s Note:  Hawaii comes in at 44th, among the 10 states with the lowest burden on wireless service.] By Scott Mackey, Joseph Henchman of the Tax Foundation FISCAL FACT No. 490: Record High Taxes and Fees on Wireless Consumers in 2015 (PDF) FISCAL … Read More

[Editor’s Note:  The snapshot date for this study was July 1, 2015.  Hawaii dropped 1 place in this year’s rankings.  We anticipate that Hawaii will climb a few rungs in next year’s rankings due to the sunset of the 9%, … Read More