US States With the Lowest Share of Taxes From Severance

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from severance, from lowest to highest. First are Delaware (0), District of Columbia (0) and Georgia (0). The middle one of the 51 has 0.0405.

What this measures

The percentage from severance taxes, charged on oil, gas, coal and minerals as they are taken from the ground. This reflects geology before policy. North Dakota raises 41% of all its tax money this way, Alaska 36%, New Mexico 28% and Wyoming 26%, while 19 states raise nothing at all. It is the most uneven measure in this source. Any state at the top taxes its residents lightly, since it can tax oil and minerals instead. 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	District of Columbia	0
3	Georgia	0
4	Hawaii	0
5	Illinois	0
6	Iowa	0
7	Maine	0
8	Maryland	0
9	Massachusetts	0
10	Missouri	0
11	New Hampshire	0
12	New Jersey	0
13	New York	0
14	Pennsylvania	0
15	Rhode Island	0
16	South Carolina	0
17	Vermont	0
18	Wisconsin	0
19	Connecticut	0
20	North Carolina	0.00296
21	Indiana	0.00655
22	Virginia	0.0162
23	Tennessee	0.0217
24	Florida	0.0241
25	Nebraska	0.0312
26	California	0.0405
27	Arizona	0.0475
28	Oregon	0.0516
29	Idaho	0.0587
30	Michigan	0.0654
31	Ohio	0.0874
32	Washington	0.0986
33	South Dakota	0.117
34	Minnesota	0.206
35	Alabama	0.227
36	Kansas	0.366
37	Mississippi	0.374
38	Nevada	0.39
39	Kentucky	0.595
40	Arkansas	0.605
41	Utah	0.653
42	Colorado	0.868
43	Louisiana	3.08
44	Montana	4.23
45	Texas	5.41
46	West Virginia	8.29
47	Oklahoma	8.85
48	Wyoming	26.3
49	New Mexico	27.7
50	Alaska	36.1
51	North Dakota	41

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