{"id":58286,"date":"2023-03-06T19:55:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T00:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/is-california-taxed-less-than-texas-new-study-says-yes-but-theres-a-catch-58286"},"modified":"2023-03-06T19:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T00:55:52","slug":"is-california-taxed-less-than-texas-new-study-says-yes-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/is-california-taxed-less-than-texas-new-study-says-yes-but-theres-a-catch-58286","title":{"rendered":"Is California taxed less than Texas? New study says yes&#8230;but there&#8217;s a catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A new study released by Wallethub claims a collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wealthy blue states like California<\/a>, Massachusetts, and Maryland have a lower tax rate than states with reputations for lower taxes such as Texas, Indiana, and Oklahoma.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The study claims that California is the twelfth lowest-taxed state in the union with the District of Columbia coming in at number 15, Massachusetts at 26, and Texas at 40th. The top five lowest-taxed states, starting at number one, are: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, Nevada, and Wyoming. The top five highest taxed states, started with number 45, are: Kansas, Pennsylvania, New York, Conneticut, and Illinois.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In order to identify the states with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/finance\/taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highest and lowest tax rates<\/a>, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across four types of taxation: real estate, vehicle, income, and sales tax. The study compares these results to the national median.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/bad-news-biden-new-survey-shows-majority-americans-more-worried-about-inflation-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BAD NEWS FOR BIDEN: NEW SURVEY SHOWS MAJORITY OF AMERICANS MORE WORRIED ABOUT INFLATION THAN TAXES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Issues with this methodology arise when states with wealthier residents who can better afford their high tax rates get listed as having a &#8220;lower tax rate&#8221; than poorer and middle class states with less taxes. For instance, despite being listed as number 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compared to Texas&#8217; 40th spot<\/a>, the average Californian paid $9,612 in taxes compared to the average Texan&#8217;s $8,006. Even more dramatically, despite being only three spots below Texas, New Jersey residents paid $12,652.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average California household income<\/a> is $95,207 which puts the average Californian at a state income tax rate of 9.3%. With 55% of Californians owning a home that comes with a property tax of .71% and an average sales tax of 7.5%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kansas-plan-may-allow-paying-disabled-workers-below-minimum-wage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>KANSAS PLAN MAY ALLOW PAYING DISABLED WORKERS BELOW MINIMUM WAGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas does not have an income tax at all, and with 62.5% of Texans owning a home, that comes with a property tax rate of 1.60% and an average sales tax of 6.25%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This means, despite being 28 spots worse off in the study, the average Texan has a cumulative tax rate of 7.85% and the average Californian has a cumulative tax rate of 17.51%.<\/p>\n<p>Americans have been feeling this difference in past years. U-HAUL ranks California as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/economy\/inflation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-fastest shrinking state<\/a> with Texas being the fastest growing in terms of Americans moving. Texas also tends to rank at or near the top for best states in which to own a business, while California consistently ranks at or near the bottom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>WalletHub did not respond for immediate comment<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/california-taxed-less-texas-new-study-yes-catch\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/california-taxed-less-texas-new-study-yes-catch <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study released by Wallethub claims a collection of wealthy blue states like California, Massachusetts, and Maryland have a lower tax rate than states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-58286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is California taxed less than Texas? 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