Ron DeSantis is right, Florida has one of the country’s lowest tax burdens. But it’s also among the country’s most unequal states, meaning low-income people pay a much higher share of their income in taxes than their wealthier counterparts.
, in 2022, ranking tax burdens lowest to highest, Florida had the nation’s 11th lowest tax burden when looking only at state taxes and at a combination of state and local taxes.
Looking at tax burdens as a proportion of population or of state personal income does not take into account who is actually paying for a state’s taxes, said Randy Albelda, economics professor at University of Massachusetts, Boston. That’s because tax burden calculations are an average and don’t account for how much people pay in taxes based on their specific income brackets.
Lucy Dadayan, a research associate at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute, echoed Albelda’s sentiment. She said although Florida ranks low in tax burden, it’s"important to remember that Florida has a highly unfair state and local tax system."The Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank, does this. In its 2018, Florida ranked as the third-least equitable tax burden state.
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