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Friday, August 28, 2015
Excise Taxes: Hawaii Ranks #5
By Selected News Articles @ 3:09 PM :: 5314 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes

How Much Does Your State Collect in Excise Taxes Per Capita?

by Liz Malm, The Tax Foundation, August 28, 2015

State and local governments depend on many different types of taxes, one of which is known as an excise tax. Like general sales taxes, excise taxes are paid on the purchase of an item. But unlike sales taxes, excise taxes are collected on specific types of transactions, not a wide range of general goods. Some of the most common excise taxes include gasoline excise taxes, cigarette taxes, and taxes on the purchase of beer, wine, and liquor. Others include taxes on the purchase of amusements, insurance premiums, and pari-mutuels. (You can revisit our general sales tax collection map here.)

This week’s map looks at the amount of excise tax collections per person collected in each state. On average, $517 per person was collected in each state in FY 2012 (includes local governments within the state, as well).

Vermont comes in highest in the nation with $1,013 in total state and local excise tax collections per person in fiscal year 2012. Rounding out the rest of the top five are Nevada ($882 per person), Minnesota ($817 per person), Connecticut ($811 per person), and Hawaii ($785 per person).

On the low end, Wyoming state and local governments collect the least per capita at $283 per person, followed by Idaho ($292 per person), Georgia ($320 per person), Nebraska ($323 per person), and Arizona and South Carolina (both $330 per person).

Check out the map below to see how your state compares.

Click on map to enlarge. (See our reposting policy here.)

To see the raw data from the Census Bureau, visit this website. To see what taxes are included in our measure of excise taxes, see here.

More on excise taxes here.

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