WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a report this month, The Tax Foundation found that Rhode Island has the fourth-highest tax burden in the nation.
Rhode Islanders pay an average of 12.7 percent of their income in state and local taxes, the study said, while folks in top-ranked Vermont pay 14.1 percent, Maine residents pay 14 percent, and New Yorkers pay 13.8 percent.
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Alaska had the lowest tax burden, at 6.6 percent, followed by New Hampshire in 49th place, at 8 percent.
Massachusetts, which in the 1980s was No. 2, has crept down the list to No. 28, at 10.6 percent. Connecticut was No. 8, with a tax burden of 12.2 percent.
The study said the national average reached an all-time high at 11 percent.
