2013 State Business Tax Climate Index: Which States Have the Best Tax Systems for Business?

Tax Foundation ^ | 10/14/2012 | By: Joseph Henchman and Scott Drenkard

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[Past Your Eyes]

We’re #7!

[SeekAndFind]

RE: We’re #7!

So, will #7 go Romney or Obama this time?

[coder2]

#1 (Wyoming here) and couldn't be prouder.. Moved the 2 of us and our small business out of #45 (MN) last year and boy oh boy we saw an IMMEDIATE difference.

Dealing with the state of Wyoming has been an absolute pleasure and they have stated time and time again, that they love business and welcome anyone to come here and open up shop.

An absolute pleasure and a huge difference in MN, where they just raise taxes and deny deny deny that anyone is moving out because of the bad business climate they built. But I know many just like us that have moved.

[j_k_l]

Tennessee should be in the top 10.

No income tax.

[PapaNew]

I'm taking a federal income tax class and realize more than ever the intrusive and oppressive nature of the whole income tax concept whether state or federal. At least on the federal side, would to God that we could replace the 16th Amendment with an amendment repealing authorization for an income tax and replacing it with a sales tax. Let the powers that be take it from there but preferably no higher than around 15%. Among other things our country would experience an unprecedented economic boom.

It would of course be suicide to get a sales tax passed without repealing the 16th Amendment as it would just be adding on another layer of tax.

[Past Your Eyes]

Still to be determined.
Two surprises in this map: N. Carolina and Conn. I would have expected the former to be light blue and the latter dark.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

As a Californian, all I can say is thank God for New York and New Jersey!

[Past Your Eyes]

The trouble with Wyoming is you have to drive so far just to look at somebody else’s trees. “;^o

[Past Your Eyes]

Maybe it’s your 17.25% rooms and meals tax. :(

[SeekAndFind]

RE: As a Californian, all I can say is thank God for New York and New Jersey!

“I complained I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet”

[Ditto]

#3 but #1 in unemployment. I don’t get it!

Nevada's two biggest industries, tourism and construction, are both down during the Obama recession.

[Nevadan]

Nevada's legislature meets every 2 years. The Democrats have consistently tried to knock Nevada off the top of this list for years, treating business owners as the enemies not paying “their fair share” while proposing a host of new programs and items to spend taxpayer money on.

Nevada was a red state for decades. It is only recently with the influx of Hispanics and Californians who have primarily voted Democrat that it has turned blue. Add to the mix the recession and Obama’s hit to Nevada's economy by telling Americans not to go to Las Vegas, Nevada has suffered economically.

[CapnJack]

Good question. Nh court said it’s ok for college kids to vote here if from out of state. This is what will probably swing it for zero

[coder2]

LOL -- very true where we live (we have 4 and that is a lot), but there are parts of WY, where there are dense forests.

Coming from MN, I dearly miss the lakes and the trees, but that is a price to pay to live in a state where freedom still means something.

[Little Bill]

Eyes: I was going retire to Wyoming, some of my Grandmothers family settled the place, one step ahead of the Law so to speak.

If you get reelected we got to talk, I have a project, I am going to drag Sam Cataldo into if he is elected, about something that has pissed me off for years and falls into an area that General Court has some clout in, just get reelected and we can have some fun.

[Past Your Eyes]

Here in NH it’s a constant battle to beat back the trees from taking over my fields and turning them back into a wilderness.

[Past Your Eyes]

Sam is a great guy and I would look forward to whatever it is you are talking about. Even though Sam is about 10 years older than I am, he seems to have much more energy!

[Little Bill]

He claims he is descended from an Irish Saint that ended up in Sicily, I told him that my Stepfather told me that anyone South of Rome were Turks and Brutti, beasts. His answer was what do a lot of Germans know.

Great Guy.