The tri-state region of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey have the highest state-local tax burden in the nation, as measured as a percentage of a state’s total income.
New York leads the pack, 12.8 percent of the state’s income paid in state and local taxes, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan research center based in Washington, DC.
The least-taxed was Alaska, at 7 percent, which collects a large portion of its tax revenue from levies on oil.
The study, conducted by economists Elizabeth Malm and Gerald Prante, Â developed its methodology in a way that allowed including tax payments that residents while working in other states, or traveling as tourists.
