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.
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.
