Star-Ledger: Reducing Taxes for Some in NJ Would Hurt the Poor Even More
media mentionThe Garden State, like every other state, calls on low-income and middle-class New Jerseyans to pay greater shares of their incomes in state and local taxes than their wealthy neighbors. New data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s latest Who Pays? report lays it out:
New Jersey’s poorest households – those earning less than $22,000 a year – pay 10.7 percent of their income in state and local taxes.