[thackney]

Texas has the lowest tax per capita

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I’ve seen this claimed before but it is not true.

Alaska is consistently the lowest. Several others are less than Texas.

My property tax was half in Alaska and no sales tax.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/335.html

[mnehring]

You are right, Texas has the lowest per capita tax burden, not tax rate.

http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_tot_tax_bur-total-tax-burden-per-capita