US States With the Highest Share of Taxes From General Sales and Gross Receipts

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from general sales and gross receipts, from highest to lowest. First are Washington (49.3), Tennessee (46.6) and Arizona (45.7). The middle one of the 51 has 24.9.

What this measures

The percentage of total tax money from general sales and 'gross receipts' taxes. Note the second part: the Census puts taxes on a business's total sales here. So Oregon seems to raise 4.2% from 'sales' with no sales tax at all. That figure is its Corporate Activity Tax. Washington's B&O tax and Texas's margin tax are here too, which is why those states show no corporate income tax. 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	Washington	49.3
2	Tennessee	46.6
3	Arizona	45.7
4	Nevada	45.5
5	South Dakota	44.7
6	Arkansas	41.8
7	Louisiana	39.3
8	Florida	39
9	Texas	37.6
10	Hawaii	36.9
11	Mississippi	34.6
12	Alabama	32.9
13	Oklahoma	32.5
14	New Mexico	31.5
15	Idaho	30.8
16	Utah	29.9
17	Colorado	29.7
18	Indiana	29.5
19	North Carolina	29.3
20	Kansas	29.2
21	Missouri	28.2
22	Ohio	28.1
23	Georgia	25.5
24	South Carolina	25.2
25	Iowa	25
26	Nebraska	24.9
27	Wyoming	23.7
28	Michigan	23.2
29	Kentucky	23.1
30	Wisconsin	22.6
31	Maine	22.4
32	California	21.7
33	North Dakota	20.9
34	Rhode Island	19.2
35	West Virginia	19
36	Minnesota	19
37	District of Columbia	18.7
38	Pennsylvania	18.4
39	New Jersey	17.4
40	Connecticut	17.1
41	Illinois	16.9
42	New York	16.6
43	Virginia	15.2
44	Massachusetts	14.7
45	Maryland	13.5
46	Vermont	11.1
47	Alaska	6.94
48	Oregon	4.15
49	Delaware	0
50	Montana	0
51	New Hampshire	0

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