Report reveals highest and lowest taxed states in the US.

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Report reveals highest and lowest taxed states in the US.
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A report by personal finance website WalletHub has analyzed the total tax burden by state, measuring the proportion of property tax, income tax and sales tax that people paid. The states with the highest tax burdens were New York, Hawaii, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa. The states with the lowest tax burdens were Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Florida, Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana, Missouri and Oklahoma. The report also broke down the tax burden by category, with Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire having the highest burden for property tax, and New York, Maryland and Oregon having the highest burden for income tax.

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