US States With the Highest Effective General Sales Tax Rates

51 US states ranked by effective general sales tax rate, from highest to lowest. First are Hawaii (5.31), New Mexico (5.12) and Washington (4.69). The middle one of the 51 has 2.47.

What this measures

General sales tax collected, as a percentage of residents' income. It is the flip side of the income tax rate: states without an income tax raise more here, except New Hampshire, which has neither. Source: .

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

Every state

Rank	State	% of personal income
1	Hawaii	5.31
2	New Mexico	5.12
3	Washington	4.69
4	Nevada	4.36
5	Louisiana	4
6	Arkansas	3.91
7	Arizona	3.79
8	Tennessee	3.59
9	Mississippi	3.52
10	South Dakota	3.19
11	Texas	3.17
12	Kansas	3.03
13	Alabama	2.94
14	Utah	2.87
15	North Dakota	2.86
16	Florida	2.83
17	Oklahoma	2.72
18	Ohio	2.68
19	Idaho	2.65
20	District of Columbia	2.61
21	Indiana	2.61
22	Iowa	2.58
23	New York	2.55
24	North Carolina	2.53
25	Colorado	2.5
26	Maine	2.47
27	Missouri	2.39
28	California	2.37
29	Nebraska	2.3
30	Georgia	2.28
31	Kentucky	2.25
32	South Carolina	2.15
33	Wyoming	2.13
34	Wisconsin	2.1
35	Minnesota	2.1
36	Illinois	2.09
37	Michigan	2.09
38	Rhode Island	2.09
39	West Virginia	2.06
40	New Jersey	1.93
41	Pennsylvania	1.86
42	Connecticut	1.81
43	Massachusetts	1.47
44	Maryland	1.45
45	Virginia	1.44
46	Vermont	1.38
47	Alaska	0.657
48	Oregon	0.466
49	Delaware	0
50	Montana	0
51	New Hampshire	0

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