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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 statewide property-tax figure, a sales-tax figure, and a capital-gains figure, then lines Tennessee up next to another state. It is not a tax return and not advice. County and city property rates from the Comptroller are on the map, not in this calculator — no statewide Comptroller number was invented.

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 published.

States listed “none” are $0 income tax: Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming. Tennessee has no wage income tax. The Hall tax on interest and dividends was repealed for tax periods beginning January 1, 2021.

Property for every state on this page 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). A Comptroller county rate was not invented into a statewide number and is not used here. See the map for the 2025 county rate per $100 assessed.

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. Official Tennessee Department of Revenue rates: state 7% general, 4% food, local up to 2.75%. This calculator uses the Tax Foundation combined figure, not a grocery split.

Capital gains: states with no individual income tax are $0. Washington taxes only high-earner capital gains using the published 2026 table. Missouri exempts capital gains from its income tax. Every other wage state stacks gains as ordinary income. No preferential capital-gains rates were invented.

Credits are skipped. No federal tax, FICA, gas, or estate 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. That is a published check from a different year and method.

Property is a statewide average, not your county. Sales is the average combined rate on the spending you typed, not groceries versus everything.

Not a return. Credits and local income tax are still skipped.