US States With the Lowest Share of Taxes From Corporation Licences

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

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