Maine has been found to have the fifth highest total tax burden in the country, according to a new study published by personal finance website WalletHub.

To determine residents’ tax burden, WalletHub calculated property, income, and sales and excises taxes as a share of personal income.

The data used for these rankings were collected on March 4 of this year from the Tax Policy Center.

Based on these calculations, Mainers bear a 10.64 percent overall tax burden, annually paying 4.4 percent of their income in property taxes, 3.02 percent in income taxes, and 3.48 percent in sales and excise taxes.

The only states with a higher total tax burden than Maine are California (11 percent), Vermont (11.53 percent), New York (13.56 percent), and Hawaii (13.92 percent).

Maine’s 4.4 percent property tax burden ranked fifth nationwide, representing a slight improvement over 2024 when property taxes accounted for 4.86 percent of personal income.

This apparently positive change, however, does not necessarily mean that Mainers are any less burdened by property taxes than they were in previous years.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, per capita personal income in Maine increased from $64,922 in 2023 to $68,129 in 2024, continuing a longtime trend.

Given the substantial property tax increases seen by many Mainers this past year, the somewhat lower tax burden reported by WalletHub is not necessarily reflective of everyone’s experience.

Although Maine fares comparatively better with respect to both income and sales and excise taxes, the state still falls in the bottom half of the roster for both metrics.

Maine ranked sixteenth for its 3.02 percent income tax burden and twenty-third for its 3.48 percent sales and excise tax burden.

Nationwide, WalletHub found that states that blue states had a higher average total tax burden than red states, with an average ranking of 14.74 compared to 32.10.

States were classified as either red or blue based on whether the majority of residents supported former Vice President Kamala Harris (D) or President Donald Trump (R) during the most recent presidential election.

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