{"id":8547,"date":"2011-03-31T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T12:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2011-03-31T09:38:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T13:38:52","slug":"calculating-tax-freedom-day-for-each-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/31\/calculating-tax-freedom-day-for-each-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculating “Tax Freedom Day” for each state"},"content":{"rendered":"

The least-taxed five states have already celebrated their Tax Freedom Days<\/a>: Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, Louisiana, and South Dakota. Other states may wait as long as May 2:<\/p>\n

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Americans will spend an average of 28% of their income to pay federal, state and local taxes this year, the Tax Foundation said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

That means you will need to work 102 days — more than three months — just to earn enough to pay your tax bill. So on April 12 you will be free of your 2011 tax burden.<\/p>\n

This year’s “Tax Freedom Day,” as the Tax Foundation calls it, comes three days later than last year. Rising incomes — resulting in more income tax owed — are largely to blame for its late arrival, the organization said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For Canadians, you can calculate your own personal Tax Freedom Day using the Fraser Institute’s customized web tool<\/a>. If I lived in Alberta, for example, my Tax Freedom day would be May 13, but as I live in Ontario it’s actually May 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The least-taxed five states have already celebrated their Tax Freedom Days: Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, Louisiana, and South Dakota. Other states may wait as long as May 2: Americans will spend an average of 28% of their income to pay federal, state and local taxes this year, the Tax Foundation said Wednesday. That means you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,13],"tags":[542,704,87,118],"class_list":["post-8547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-usa","tag-alberta","tag-fraserinstitute","tag-ontario","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2dR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8550,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions\/8550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}