The Hall income tax is a Tennessee state tax on interest and dividend income from investments. It is the only tax on personal income in Tennessee, which does not levy a general state income tax. The current tax rate is 6 percent, applied to all taxable interest and dividend income over $1250 per person ($2500 for married couples filing jointly).
Hawaii earns the most in tax revenue out of any state in the Union. High-income Hawaiians shoulder the brunt of itâ11% for incomes over $200,000. Since the state has some of the countryâs highest earners, that amounts to significant outlays of cash. All told, the state collects $5,606.70 annually for every taxpayer.
At 60.2%, Denmark last year had the highest top personal income tax rate among the 34 countries in the OECD, an organization of developed and emerging countries. And that 60.2% applied to income over roughly $55,000. That's a bigger bite than wealthy Californians face on their paychecks and other earned income. California, which recently raised taxes on the wealthy, now has the highest combined federal and state income tax rate in the United States.