WHAT DO YOU THINK??? Is this fair or right?
Two-parent families of four in Alabama owed $498 in state income tax on poverty-line earnings in 2010, by far the highest amount in the nation, according to an annual report released today by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a nonprofit research group in Washington, D.C. The state’s families also began to owe state income tax at the second lowest income level in the nation, the CBPP found.
Alabama had the nation’s highest income tax for a two-parent family of four at the poverty line in 2010. A family of four at that income, which was $22,314 in 2010, owed $498 in Alabama income tax. The next highest state income tax for such a family was $292 in Hawaii. By comparison, the same family in 2010 would have owed $238 in Georgia and $81 in Mississippi. Only 15 states collected any state income tax at all from such families in 2010, the CBPP found.
Income Tax for Alabama Family of Four at Poverty Line Climbs to $498 |