When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.
(CNSNews.com) â The Tax Foundation has ranked the states by their state income tax rates and among the highest are California, Hawaii, and Oregon. On a U.S. map, the Tax Foundation shows that the following 10 states (and counting the District of Columbia) have the highest individual income tax rates in 2014: California, 13.3%. Hawaii, 11.0%.
Of the five states, three (Connecticut, New Jersey and New York) have state income taxes with more than one tax bracket and two, Massachusetts and Rhode Island have flat taxes. Rates for top income brackets in 2002 range from a low of 4. 5% (Connecticut) to a high of 6. 85% (New York). For the lowest brackets, tax rates run from 1. 4% in New Jersey to 5. 3% in Massachusetts. Rhode Island is the only one of the five that uses federal tax liability as the basis of its tax.