WASHINGTON — There are many ways to measure the taxes you pay, including the broadly encompassing “tax burden.” That’s the portion of the total personal income of residents in a state that are paid toward state and local taxes.
Looking at tax burden, Maryland ranks pretty high and Virginia ranks pretty low.
WalletHub combined the property tax burden with the individual income tax burden and the sales and gross receipts tax burden to come up with its overall tax burden rankings.
Maryland ranks No. 13 on this list, with a total tax burden of 9.38 percent. Virginia ranks No. 39, with a total tax burden of 7.80 percent.
The WalletHub rankings of states does not include the District of Columbia.
New York has the highest state tax burden, at 13.12 percent, while Alaska has the lowest, at 5.18 percent.
Here are WalletHub’s tax-burden rankings by state:
