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Taxes are local. The sales tax on the same $100 purchase ranges from $0 in Oregon to over $9 in Tennessee and Louisiana, property taxes average under 0.4% in Hawaii and over 2.4% in New Jersey, and nine states charge no tax on wages at all. Pick your state for its real rates — and the calculators that use them.
Five states have no statewide sales tax (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon), and 9 entries below have no tax on wage income. Every state page shows the state base rate, the average combined rate shoppers actually pay, how groceries are treated, the average effective property tax rate, and the state's income-tax structure — with worked examples.
Each state page is generated from a single reviewed dataset (see our Methodology). State base rates are statutory; combined rates are averages — your exact rate depends on your county, city and any special districts, which is why every page links to the full calculator where you can enter your exact local rate. Pages exist for the calculations where location genuinely changes the answer: sales tax by state first, with property-tax and paycheck variants built on the same system as those tools roll out.
Moving or working remotely: compare income-tax structure and property tax together — a no-income-tax state like Texas offsets it with ~1.6% property taxes, while Oregon pairs no sales tax with income tax up to 9.9%. Selling online: your nexus states' combined rates decide what you collect. Buying a home: the property-tax average on your state page, applied to your price, is the fastest sanity check on a listing's tax bill.