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What if Americans paid zero taxes?

Hypothetical model, not a forecast or advice. Owner's assumption: no federal, state, or local taxes on individuals or businesses. Law enforcement, military, and other public jobs in the model still exist and are paid by the U.S. Treasury.

State map

The interactive page opens with a U.S. state map, Alaska and Hawaii included, and a year player. The default layer is a day-to-day wellbeing score. This no-JavaScript table does not draw that map.

Extra take-home pay, 50 states and DC, 2023

Total of the five personal parts
$3.61 trillion
Per person
$10,727
Per household
$27,504

Households are the sum of ACS 2023 1-year state estimates (131,332,360). Population is BEA SAINC1 2023 (336,755,052). Sales, excise, and real-property collections are not in this total.

Five personal parts, sum of 50 states and DC
PartDollarsSource note
Federal individual income tax$2.11 trillionIRS SOI tax year 2023, column A06500, sum of 50 states and DC
Employee and self-employed social insurance$983.50 billionBEA SAINC4 line 37, 2023. Broader than FICA. FICA-only by state is missing
State personal income tax$465.42 billionBEA SAINC50 line 130, 2023
Local personal income tax$43.65 billionBEA SAINC50 line 190, 2023
State and local personal property tax$12.30 billionBEA SAINC50 line 230, 2023. Personal property, not real estate

By jurisdiction

JurisdictionPer householdPer personTotal
District of Columbia$54,802$26,871$18.34 billion
Massachusetts$41,320$16,362$115.74 billion
California$40,947$14,317$560.97 billion
Connecticut$40,934$16,221$59.07 billion
New York$39,741$15,685$310.35 billion
New Jersey$36,561$13,770$129.37 billion
Maryland$33,402$12,837$79.65 billion
Virginia$30,922$12,049$105.22 billion
Colorado$29,501$12,117$71.64 billion
Washington$29,356$11,615$91.04 billion
Hawaii$29,089$10,012$14.37 billion
Illinois$28,821$11,569$146.16 billion
Minnesota$28,706$11,698$67.30 billion
Utah$28,501$9,648$33.28 billion
New Hampshire$28,443$11,558$16.20 billion
Delaware$26,801$10,666$11.04 billion
Oregon$26,521$10,932$46.47 billion
Rhode Island$26,158$10,547$11.61 billion
Pennsylvania$25,632$10,490$136.47 billion
Florida$25,286$9,888$226.72 billion
Wyoming$25,086$10,614$6.21 billion
Nevada$24,325$9,277$29.79 billion
Georgia$23,909$8,969$99.23 billion
Montana$23,585$9,864$11.15 billion
Vermont$23,293$10,055$6.51 billion
Wisconsin$23,028$9,690$57.47 billion
Nebraska$23,005$9,417$18.72 billion
Kansas$22,959$9,249$27.28 billion
Texas$22,937$8,408$258.28 billion
North Carolina$22,516$9,098$98.91 billion
North Dakota$22,422$9,631$7.58 billion
Arizona$22,318$8,706$64.88 billion
Idaho$21,956$8,170$16.10 billion
Alaska$21,779$8,207$6.03 billion
Missouri$21,696$8,937$55.46 billion
Michigan$21,522$8,786$88.41 billion
Maine$21,475$9,437$13.23 billion
Ohio$21,043$8,763$103.47 billion
Iowa$20,840$8,669$27.87 billion
Indiana$20,660$8,271$56.91 billion
South Carolina$20,409$8,245$44.45 billion
South Dakota$20,260$8,357$7.67 billion
Tennessee$19,657$7,940$56.79 billion
Kentucky$18,683$7,611$34.63 billion
Oklahoma$18,222$7,128$28.96 billion
Arkansas$17,919$7,196$22.09 billion
Alabama$17,892$7,172$36.71 billion
New Mexico$17,828$7,205$15.27 billion
Louisiana$17,357$6,922$31.83 billion
West Virginia$16,138$6,780$12.00 billion
Mississippi$14,849$5,887$17.32 billion

What this static table leaves for the interactive page

Sliders for saving, spending, and retirement; a year-by-year player from year 0 to year 10, with an optional year 30; firm-size bands; statutory corporate-rate arithmetic; the CBO deficit and debt path; OECD tax-to-GDP; and the quality-of-life weights load with the page. Datasets that were not retrieved are labelled Missing there, including life expectancy, infrastructure, state saving rates, a municipal-bond spread, and the ICE U.S. Dollar Index.