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

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from general sales and gross receipts, from lowest to highest. First are Delaware (0), Montana (0) and New Hampshire (0). 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	Delaware	0
2	Montana	0
3	New Hampshire	0
4	Oregon	4.15
5	Alaska	6.94
6	Vermont	11.1
7	Maryland	13.5
8	Massachusetts	14.7
9	Virginia	15.2
10	New York	16.6
11	Illinois	16.9
12	Connecticut	17.1
13	New Jersey	17.4
14	Pennsylvania	18.4
15	District of Columbia	18.7
16	Minnesota	19
17	West Virginia	19
18	Rhode Island	19.2
19	North Dakota	20.9
20	California	21.7
21	Maine	22.4
22	Wisconsin	22.6
23	Kentucky	23.1
24	Michigan	23.2
25	Wyoming	23.7
26	Nebraska	24.9
27	Iowa	25
28	South Carolina	25.2
29	Georgia	25.5
30	Ohio	28.1
31	Missouri	28.2
32	Kansas	29.2
33	North Carolina	29.3
34	Indiana	29.5
35	Colorado	29.7
36	Utah	29.9
37	Idaho	30.8
38	New Mexico	31.5
39	Oklahoma	32.5
40	Alabama	32.9
41	Mississippi	34.6
42	Hawaii	36.9
43	Texas	37.6
44	Florida	39
45	Louisiana	39.3
46	Arkansas	41.8
47	South Dakota	44.7
48	Nevada	45.5
49	Arizona	45.7
50	Tennessee	46.6
51	Washington	49.3

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