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Type wages, a home value, yearly taxable spending, and any long-term capital gains. This page estimates 2026 state income tax, a property-tax figure, a sales-tax figure, and a capital-gains figure, then lines New Hampshire up next to another state. It is not a tax return, not advice, and not official Free State Project.

Income is treated as AGI / wages, not a full return. When the Tax Foundation lists a dollar standard deduction or personal exemption for that filing status, it is subtracted. Brackets are applied as the published rate on taxable income above each threshold — progressive slices. A few states list a first threshold above $0 (Idaho, North Dakota, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Missouri, Delaware); income below that slice is 0%.

States listed “none” are $0 income tax: Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming. New Hampshire has no individual income tax. The Interest and Dividends tax is repealed for periods beginning on or after January 1, 2025.

Property for other states (and for New Hampshire if you leave the town blank) is home value times the statewide average effective rate — property taxes paid as a percentage of owner-occupied housing value, calendar year 2024 (ACS / Tax Foundation Facts & Figures 2026, Table 33). If you pick an NH town with a numeric 2024 DRA full-value rate, the property line is home ÷ 1,000 × that rate, the same $500,000 example as the map. If DRA lists the place as N/A, the page says so and falls back to 1.50%.

Sales is the yearly spending you typed times the Tax Foundation combined state-plus-local rate as of July 1, 2026. Combined is a population-weighted average local rate, not a ZIP rate. New Hampshire is $0. The meals and rooms tax is not a general sales tax and is not in this number.

Capital gains: states with no individual income tax are $0. Washington taxes only high-earner capital gains, using the published brackets and $278,000 standard deduction in the 2026 income-tax table (7%, then 9% after $1 million). Missouri exempts capital gains from its income tax (Tax Foundation 2026); wages still use the ordinary brackets. Every other wage state stacks gains as ordinary income: tax(wages + gains) − tax(wages). No preferential capital-gains rates were invented. Maryland’s 2% capital-gains surtax (a footnote) is skipped.

Credits are skipped — California’s personal credit, Utah’s standard-deduction credit, exemption credits in Arkansas, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, and Oregon, and listed dependent credits. Those states may run a bit high on income. No federal tax, FICA, gas, estate, or meals-and-rooms tax is in the dollar figure.

Your % is this page’s four-line total divided by the wages you typed. It is not the Tax Foundation burden.

The 2022 TF column is Tax Foundation’s published state-local tax burden as a share of state income, calendar year 2022 (Facts & Figures 2026, Table 2). New Hampshire is 9.6%. The U.S. figure is 11.2%. That is a published check from a different year and method. It is not mixed into the dollar total.

This is a back-of-the-envelope from the published tables, not your actual bill. Phaseouts, itemizing, dependents, and recapture rules are not modeled.

Property for other states is a statewide average, not your county.

Sales is the average combined rate on the spending you typed, not groceries versus everything, and not a ZIP rate.

Not a return. Credits and local income tax (New York City, Maryland counties, and others) are still skipped. Tax Foundation footnote (a) excludes local income taxes.

New Hampshire property is the real local bill if you pick a town — the 2024 DRA full-value rate. Your actual bill still uses the town’s assessed value times its local rate.

Washington’s wage estimate is $0; no Washington wage tax was invented. Maryland’s 2% capital-gains surtax is not modeled.