Tulsa World: Oklahoma has the 16th most unfair state and local sales tax system
media mentionOklahoma has the 16th most unfair state and local tax system in the country, says a report released Wednesday.
In Oklahoma, the bottom 80 percent of taxpayers are paying between 8.6 percent and 10.5 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes, according to the “2015 Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All Fifty States” from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
Meanwhile, the wealthiest 1 percent of households pay 4.3 percent, the report says.