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States ranked by claims for state and local tax deductions
AP and ABC News ^ | 18 Nov 17 | AP Staff

Posted on 11/20/2017 4:42:05 PM PST by SkyPilot

The percentage of federal individual income tax filers claiming a deduction for state and local taxes paid in 2015, ranked by state:

1. Maryland: 45.7 percent

2. Connecticut: 41.3 percent

3. New Jersey: 41.2 percent

4. Virginia: 37.3 percent

5. Massachusetts: 36.9 percent

6. Oregon: 36.0 percent

7. Utah: 35.3 percent

8. Minnesota: 34.7 percent

9. New York: 34.5 percent

10. California: 34.4 percent

11. Georgia: 32.8 percent

12. Rhode Island: 32.8 percent

13. Colorado: 32.5 percent

14. Delaware: 31.6 percent

15. Illinois: 31.3 percent

16. Wisconsin: 31.0 percent

17. New Hampshire: 30.9 percent

18. Washington: 29.9 percent

19. Iowa: 29.5 percent

20. Hawaii: 29.1 percent

21. North Carolina: 29.0 percent

22. Pennsylvania: 28.6 percent

23. Arizona: 28.4 percent

24. Montana: 28.2 percent

25. Idaho: 28.0 percent

26. Maine: 27.6 percent

27. Nebraska: 27.6 percent

28. South Carolina: 27.3 percent

29. Vermont: 27.3 percent

30. Michigan: 26.5 percent

31. Missouri: 26.1 percent

32. Ohio: 26.1 percent

33. Kentucky: 26.0 percent

34. Alabama: 25.8 percent

35. Kansas: 25.5 percent

36. Nevada: 24.6 percent

37. Oklahoma: 24.0 percent

38. Mississippi: 23.3 percent

39. Louisiana: 23.0 percent

40. Texas: 22.8 percent

41. Indiana: 22.8 percent

42. Florida: 22.5 percent

43. New Mexico: 22.5 percent

44. Arkansas: 22.3 percent

45. Wyoming: 21.6 percent

46. Alaska: 21.4 percent

47. Tennessee: 19.3 percent

48. North Dakota: 18.5 percent

49. West Virginia: 17.0 percent

50. South Dakota: 16.9 percent

District of Columbia: 39.8 percent

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Maryland; US: New Jersey; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bluestates; deductions; democrats; division; govtincomes; paping; salt; stateandlocaltaxes; stateslist; statestaxlist; taxandspend; taxbill; taxes; topten
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To: Svartalfiar

Ya, it’s great to eliminate deductions without implementing a flat tax. It’s just wonderful that the feds get to steal even more of my money to fill their 1.1 trillion dollar budget.

Grand, ain’t it?


61 posted on 11/20/2017 6:23:24 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: tcrlaf

Wow!! So in your world the feds have the power and should dictate to the states how taxes should be laid out? The states have their tax policy that is closest to the voter yet more in this thread would have the feds further dictate a theft of my money by punishing states through the elimination of state deductions.

Wow


62 posted on 11/20/2017 6:25:45 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: Jarhead9297

No, it makes absolutely no sense at all. It is YOU, that believes in Socialism, by asking people in other states to pay a bigger share to you.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sdut-welfare-capital-of-the-us-2012jul28-htmlstory.html


63 posted on 11/20/2017 6:27:53 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Brown Deer
The rest of the country gets the SAME DEDUCTIONS; the difference being that not everyone, everywhere, uses the same ones!

If I were like you, I could just as easily ask: 1)Why should people with huge families get a deduction 2) Why should people who take out a mortgage get a deduction 3) Why should those who are very ill, get to deduct their medical costs 4) Why should people who were stupid enough to take out huge student loans get to deduct the interest 5) Why should people who adopt get a deduction 6) Why should anyone paying alimony get to deduct it 7) and on and and on and on?

The SALT deductions are over 100 years old and are still worth keeping intacted!

Yes, I chose to live here and when we moved here, there was NO state income tax! So I didn't have that deduction then; now I do.

Again with the "move" crap?

Okay...why should I move to some nasty hellhole, where I don't know anyone nor have any family?

Why should ANYONE "have to move" because the Congress has decided to pull a huge tax INCREASE ?

And just because one lives in a "conservative state" doesn't preclude them having to pay large property taxes...which are now either capped or disallowed, depending on if you look at the Senate of House Bills!

Deductions for SALT isn't "harming" you nor anyone else!

You must also yearn to "soak the rich"; you little COMMIE, you!

64 posted on 11/20/2017 6:28:28 PM PST by nopardons (<B></B>)
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To: Jarhead9297
SPOT ON!

This topic has smoked out FR's MARXISTS and STUPID; sort of the same thing.

65 posted on 11/20/2017 6:29:54 PM PST by nopardons (<B></B>)
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To: Mariner

Alimony is theft and should be banned.

How much is it?

If you lost SALT and got a $24,000 standard deduction, how would the math work out for you?


66 posted on 11/20/2017 6:29:59 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: Jarhead9297

If you’re paying high state taxes your beef is with your state legislature. The fed government doesn’t owe you a deduction for it.


67 posted on 11/20/2017 6:31:01 PM PST by kjam22 (America need forgiveness from God)
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To: Brown Deer
No, diddums, unlike YOU, I'm NOT a "wannabe" at all; but I don't post personal stuff on the threads.

Don't believe me; no skin off my nose. LOL

But your posts to me, just make you look very foolish and are giving me lots to derisively laugh at!

68 posted on 11/20/2017 6:32:17 PM PST by nopardons (<B></B>)
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To: Brown Deer

Lovely picture of you and the rest of the MARXIST MORONS here.


69 posted on 11/20/2017 6:33:08 PM PST by nopardons (<B></B>)
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To: Brown Deer

You are soooooooooo immature! LOL


70 posted on 11/20/2017 6:33:46 PM PST by nopardons (<B></B>)
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To: familyop

Me too. We shouldn’t be paying California’s taxes. The free ride is over.


71 posted on 11/20/2017 6:34:20 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: Brown Deer

No, the states in which people reside should dictate what race me are paid FIRST and then the feds adjust deductions based on the needs of the individuals within the state. The feds should be FLAT, period, point blank, end of discussion. It is ONLY because of present tax policy at the fed level and this so called tax bill that drives socialism.

The feds should NOT require an immediate confiscation of my salary @ 35% before the state even touches it. Returning MY MONEY back to me through deductions isn’t socialism that’s called grabbing the money stolen that I earned back to my pockets. Sorry Charlie but getting some of my money back is the direct opposite of socialism. Being in the top 5% is a penalty because success is punished.


72 posted on 11/20/2017 6:34:37 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: SkyPilot
What kills me about this Goldman Sachs clown who wormed his way into Trump's White House is that his current wife is his 3rd.

Huh.

His boss is also on Wife Number Three.

Funny how it works out that way ...

73 posted on 11/20/2017 6:35:45 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: kjam22

Bingo!


74 posted on 11/20/2017 6:36:07 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: tcrlaf
Oh you're just SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO "smart", wish I had thought of that....NOT!

You, for once moment, believe that people, in high state tax states, can fight that?

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

75 posted on 11/20/2017 6:36:27 PM PST by nopardons (<B></B>)
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To: familyop

“That’s a good idea. So let’s demand that while stopping the diversions of revenues to the worst of commie states is great for the tax reform bill, we also need a bill to cut spending for pork to those same states!”

Win win !


76 posted on 11/20/2017 6:36:28 PM PST by moehoward
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To: nopardons; Admin Moderator
The rest of the country gets the SAME DEDUCTIONS;

No, the rest of the country does not have those same large deductions.

Large families? what does that have to with what state you live in? Why do you just keep spouting nonsense? Where did I say anything about you moving?

AND WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO CALL Conservative FReepers COMMUNISTS?

There's a special place for people like you in hell.
77 posted on 11/20/2017 6:36:29 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: SkyPilot; zot; Interesting Times; hoosiermama

Another reason I’m moving to Indiana from Maryland— the state & local tax rates:

1) Average dollar amount of state and local tax deductions claimed on federal individual income tax returns for 2015

7. Maryland: $12,931
34. Indiana: $8,756

2) The percentage of federal individual income tax filers claiming a deduction for state and local taxes paid in 2015, ranked by state:

1. Maryland: 45.7 percent
41. Indiana: 22.8 percent


78 posted on 11/20/2017 6:36:51 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: SkyPilot

And that is why I want the tax reform rates even lower, so we can get rid of individual and corporate SALT and stop subsidizing oppressive, large state and local governments.

The only thing comforting about my subsidizing the yuge, debt-riddled, whacko-loony government of Kookiefornia is that I can write off my state and local taxes.

I will gladly give up state and local write-offs for much lower rates so that less of my money will be going to subsidize Kookiefornia.


79 posted on 11/20/2017 6:38:25 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Environ-MENTAL-ism is MENTAL)
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To: kjam22

The hell the feds don’t owe me a deduction! They steal my money every 2 weeks! The state in which I live should always get more and have first cut but because we still have folks that firmly believe power should reside at the fed level and less with the states, well we are left with the John Adams ilk vs. Jefferson.

Why should the states which should have the power of taxation have to lower their taxes because an out of control federal government can’t control their spending?


80 posted on 11/20/2017 6:38:46 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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