ST. PAUL (AP) -- The nonpartisian Tax Foundation says in a new report that Minnesota taxpayers pay the 12th-highest state and local tax burden in the nation.
The report says Minnesotans paid 10.2 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes in fiscal 2008.
That's down slightly from 10.4 percent in 2007, when Minnesota ranked 11th highest in the nation. In 2005 and 2006, the group reported Minnesota had the 17th highest tax burden.
The nation as a whole paid 9.7 percent of its income in state and local taxes in 2008.
Wisconsin residents had a higher tax burden that Minnesotans. They were ranked ninth-highest.
New Jersey taxpayers had the heaviest burden, at 11.8 percent. Alaskans had the lightest -- 6.4 percent.
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