The Hall tax was established by action of the Tennessee General Assembly in 1929, by Chapter 86, Public Acts of 1929, enacted on April 10, 1929. It is named for Frank S. Hall, the state senator who sponsored the legislation.
It's a great question to ask -- especially while you pore over tax forms this year. Seven U.S. states currently don't have an income tax: Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. And residents of New Hampshire and Tennessee are also spared from handing over an extra chunk of their paycheck on April 15, though they do pay tax on dividends and income from investments.
In 2010, 20 percent of total U.S. state and local tax revenues were collected from personal income taxes. The top five states with the largest share of tax revenues from this source were Oregon (37.7 percent), Maryland (35.6 percent), New York (31.2 percent), Kentucky (30.4 percent), and Massachusetts (30.3 percent).nother small source of state and local government tax revenues are taxes on motor vehicle licenses. Oklahoma relied most heavily on these types of taxes, with 5.1 percent of tax revenues coming from this source.