US States With the Highest Share of Taxes From Corporation Licences

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from corporation licences, from highest to lowest. First are Delaware (30.1), Tennessee (4.17) and Mississippi (1.72). The middle one of the 51 has 0.105.

What this measures

The percentage from corporation licence and franchise taxes, charged for being incorporated in the state at all, not on anything earned there. This is how Delaware makes its money: 30.1% of all tax money collected by Delaware and every government inside it comes from companies registered there that operate elsewhere. No other state reaches 5%. Source: Census government finances.

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 all taxes
1	Delaware	30.1
2	Tennessee	4.17
3	Mississippi	1.72
4	North Carolina	1.7
5	Louisiana	1.61
6	Alabama	0.872
7	New Jersey	0.835
8	South Carolina	0.64
9	Wyoming	0.572
10	Kentucky	0.568
11	Nevada	0.432
12	District of Columbia	0.405
13	Iowa	0.396
14	Ohio	0.384
15	Illinois	0.327
16	Maryland	0.279
17	Oklahoma	0.266
18	Arkansas	0.243
19	Florida	0.24
20	South Dakota	0.176
21	Maine	0.151
22	Oregon	0.145
23	Virginia	0.132
24	Arizona	0.13
25	Montana	0.105
26	Connecticut	0.105
27	Georgia	0.0995
28	Rhode Island	0.0972
29	Washington	0.093
30	Texas	0.0902
31	Wisconsin	0.0892
32	Kansas	0.081
33	Michigan	0.0651
34	Vermont	0.0614
35	Idaho	0.06
36	Colorado	0.0515
37	Nebraska	0.0486
38	Massachusetts	0.0407
39	New Hampshire	0.0364
40	Minnesota	0.0359
41	Indiana	0.0344
42	California	0.024
43	Hawaii	0.0205
44	New York	0.019
45	New Mexico	0.014
46	West Virginia	0.00997
47	Pennsylvania	0.00463
48	Utah	0.00125
49	Missouri	0
50	North Dakota	0
51	Alaska	0

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