Well I guess moving outside the country perhaps may be the best solution! It is being reported that New Yorkers pay the highest taxes in the nation! How much exact? New York pays well over 12.8 percent of their income to state and local taxes! The second highest paying state is New Jersey, who pay 12.4 percent! Who ranked after? Click below to see where your state places.
If you want to hide from the taxman and don’t mind six-month-long winters, you may want to move to Alaska. Alaskans pay just 7 percent of their income to state and local taxes, making it the cheapest state for taxes in the country, according to a report published on Tuesday by the Tax Foundation, a Washington-based tax policy group that advocates for a simpler tax code.
For tens of millions of Americans living in the northeast part of the country, it’s a very different story. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are the three most expensive states to live in when it comes to state and local taxes.
