What is in this file
One row per state, plus DC and Puerto Rico where available. The rank universe is 50 states; reference rows have an empty rank. The file is sorted by descending value with reference jurisdictions after the states.
- Period
- Fiscal year 2025
- Release
- 2026-04-15
- Updated
- 2026-10-23
- Producer
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Source
- Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections / Population Estimates, Vintage 2025 · STC FY2025, sum of items T01–T99
- Units
- U.S. dollars
- Cadence
- Annual, in the spring after each fiscal year
Quick validation snapshot
Vermont has the highest estimate ($8,075); Alaska has the lowest ($2,288). The U.S. benchmark is $4,503. The U.S. figure divides the 50 states’ combined collections by their combined population; DC, whose government also collects city-type taxes, is excluded. These are useful checks when importing the CSV into a spreadsheet. Reference jurisdictions may lie outside the 50-state range, so exclude rows marked reference when reproducing the default state ranks.
The survey covers every state government, so there is no sampling error, but figures can be revised when the Census Bureau publishes full state finance data.
Calculation and reproducibility
1,000 × sum of all tax items for the state in the FY2025 flat file ($ thousands) / July 1, 2025 resident population (Vintage 2025). Census does not publish per-capita collections.
Immutable edition 2026-10-23 CSV · Full edition registry, including available histories
Column definitions
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rank | 1 + the number of states with a higher source value; empty for reference rows. |
| jurisdiction | State name or labeled reference jurisdiction. |
| value | Numeric estimate, using the source’s available precision. |
| unit | U.S. dollars |
| moe_90 | Published 90% margin of error in the same units; empty when not published. |
| reference | True if excluded from the default 50-state ranking. |
| period | Reference period of the observation. |
| release | Date of the source release. |
| source | Producer and table/file identifier. |
| source_url | Producer file or source documentation; microdata rows link to the specific state input ZIP. |
Limits and reuse
State government taxes only: local taxes, such as most property taxes, are not included, so states that leave more to local governments look lower. Some taxes are paid by visitors or out-of-state businesses, for example tourism and oil and gas severance taxes. Fiscal years end on different dates in different states.
This is an independent arrangement of federal statistical data. Cite the named producer for the original observations and Rank the States for computed ranks. Downloading or embedding does not imply government endorsement. Source files are archived with a checksum for reproducibility.
SHA-256 of the concatenated tax-collections and population input SHA-256 strings. SHA-256: f8373e77a48f127a3c1755298c68e47adf10341c99d30a62ffb4db5a8589092b
Citation
Rank the States. State tax collections per person, Fiscal year 2025. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections / Population Estimates, Vintage 2025, STC FY2025, sum of items T01–T99; released 2026-04-15. Edition 2026-10-23. https://rankthestates.com/data/editions/2026-10-23/state-taxes-per-capita.csv