US States With the Lowest Share of Taxes From Selective Sales

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from selective sales, from lowest to highest. First are District of Columbia (4.44), Wyoming (5.31) and Massachusetts (5.41). The middle one of the 51 has 11.2.

What this measures

The percentage from taxes on particular things, not on sales in general: gasoline and diesel, tobacco, alcohol, insurance, utilities and entertainment. The money from these taxes shrinks as people do less of the thing being taxed. 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	District of Columbia	4.44
2	Wyoming	5.31
3	Massachusetts	5.41
4	Nebraska	5.66
5	New Jersey	6.2
6	New York	6.78
7	Georgia	7.2
8	New Mexico	7.32
9	North Dakota	7.7
10	California	7.94
11	Kansas	8.11
12	Connecticut	8.23
13	Maine	8.3
14	Delaware	8.44
15	Missouri	8.55
16	Wisconsin	8.56
17	Utah	9.08
18	Arizona	9.08
19	Iowa	9.2
20	Idaho	9.31
21	Oklahoma	9.61
22	Alaska	9.97
23	Michigan	10.1
24	Colorado	10.2
25	South Carolina	10.7
26	North Carolina	11.2
27	Minnesota	11.3
28	Oregon	11.9
29	Arkansas	12.3
30	Mississippi	12.3
31	South Dakota	12.3
32	New Hampshire	12.3
33	Washington	12.4
34	Florida	12.6
35	Ohio	13.2
36	Maryland	13.3
37	Texas	13.4
38	Pennsylvania	13.8
39	Illinois	13.8
40	Tennessee	13.9
41	Virginia	13.9
42	Montana	14.2
43	Hawaii	14.2
44	Louisiana	14.5
45	Kentucky	14.6
46	Indiana	15.4
47	Alabama	15.8
48	Vermont	16.7
49	West Virginia	17.3
50	Rhode Island	17.6
51	Nevada	20.9

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