(SitNews) - Washington, D. C. - Nationwide, state government tax revenue increased 4.8 percent, from $875.0 billion in fiscal year 2014 to $916.5 billion in 2015 ? the fifth consecutive increase, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2015 Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections.

The survey reported that corporate income taxes rose to $49.1 billion in 2015, from $46.9 billion in 2014, or 4.7 percent, while individual income taxes rose to $338.1 billion, from $313.2 billion, or 7.9 percent.

The 2015 Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections provides a comprehensive look at state governments and contains statistics on the tax collections of all state governments, including receipts from compulsory fees. State governments and businesses have been using these statistics since 1951 to make policy and investment decisions.

Revenue statistics are broken down into 25 subcategories, such as motor fuel taxes, amusements taxes and hunting license taxes. Tax revenue statistics also include related penalty and interest receipts of the governments.

Nationwide, severance taxes decreased 29.1 percent, from $17.8 billion to $12.6 billion. Much of this decrease was due to a decline in oil extraction. States that showed the largest revenue decreases in severance taxes were all major oil producers:

• Alaska: Decrease of 95.7 percent, from $2.5 billion to $0.1 billion.
• Texas: Decrease of 33.4 percent, from $6.0 billion to $4.0 billion.
• Oklahoma: Decrease of 18.1 percent, from $679.4 million to $556.5 million.
• Louisiana: Decrease of 15.2 percent, from $862.2 million to $731.3 million.
• North Dakota: Decrease of 13.5 percent, from $3.3 billion to $2.8 billion.

The severance tax decreases caused total tax collections to decrease in the following states:

• Alaska: Decrease of 74.6 percent, from $3.4 billion to $0.9 billion.
• North Dakota: Decrease of 6.2 percent, from $6.1 billion to $5.7 billion.
• Texas: Decrease of 0.1 percent, from $55.1 billion to $55.0 billion.

These statistics include tax collections for state governments only; they do not include tax collections from local governments.

On the Web:

U.S. Census Bureau's 2015 Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections
http://www.census.gov/govs/statetax/

Reporting & Editing by Mary Kauffman, SitNews

Source of News:

U.S. Census Bureau
www.census.gov

 

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