States tax residents in a variety of ways. Place too much emphasis on any one tax, and you run the risk of missing the bigger tax picture. A state with no income tax might very well levy high sales taxes. No sales tax might be offset by steep property taxes.
After analyzing the tax policies of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, we identified the state that takes the gentlest overall tax bite out of its residents. That state is Delaware.
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