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State Corporate Income Tax Rates
and Brackets for 2019
Key Findings
• Forty-four states levy a corporate income tax. Rates range from 2.5 percent
in North Carolina to 12 percent in Iowa.
• Six states—Alaska, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania—
levy top marginal corporate income tax rates of 9 percent or higher.
• Eight states—Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, North
Dakota, South Carolina, and Utah—have top rates at or below 5 percent.
• Nevada, Ohio, Texas, and Washington impose gross receipts taxes instead
of corporate income taxes. Gross receipts taxes are generally thought to be
more economically harmful than corporate income taxes.
• South Dakota and Wyoming are the only states that do not levy a corporate
income or gross receipts tax.
FISCAL
FACT
No. 639
Feb. 2019
Janelle Cammenga
Policy Analyst
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Corporate income taxes are levied in 44 states. Though often thought of as a major tax type,
corporate income taxes account for an average of just 3.38 percent of state tax collections and 2.24
percent of state general revenue.1
Iowa levies the highest top statutory corporate tax rate at 12 percent,2 followed by New Jersey (11.5
percent), Pennsylvania (9.99 percent), and Minnesota (9.8 percent). Two other states (Alaska and
Illinois) levy rates of 9 percent or higher.
Conversely, North Carolina’s flat rate of 2.5 percent is the lowest in the country, followed by rates in
North Dakota (4.31 percent) and Colorado (4.63 percent). Four other states impose rates at or below