In New York, for example, potential McDonald's employees must be 15 years old. In Australia, the age is 14. If you are interested in working for McDonald's, you should contact your local franchise to determine their age requirements. Each state determines legal age for employment.
Residents of Connecticut pay the highest federal, state and local taxes in the country â some $7,150 on average per person in 2013, according to the latest data from the Tax Foundation. (That's likely because the state also had the highest per-capita income at $60,658.). Your tax burden also comes in many different forms, depending on your state's tax structure. In Oregon, for example, nearly 40% of the state revenues come from individual income taxes. Six states (Alaska, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming) collect no income tax. But those states lean more heavily than others on sales and property taxes to pay government expenses.
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.