It’s April 30, the day New Jerseyans can rest easy.

We’ve worked enough days in the year - 119 days - to pay our total tax burden.

For N.J., Tax Freedom Day - the day when residents of the state as a whole earned enough money to pay our total tax bill for the year - comes later than the most of the country.

That’s no surprise, given that we pay higher taxes on average than pretty much everyone else.

Only New York has a later Tax Freedom Day this year, on May 3. Connecticut’s was on April 25.

New Jersey as a whole takes 77 days to pay its share of federal taxes and 42 days to pay its share of state and local taxes, according to the Tax Foundation.

“Because New Jersey is a higher-income state, it pays a relatively higher share of federal taxes due to the progressivity of the federal tax code,” said Erica York, an economist with the Tax Foundation, noting that Tax Freedom Day is not a measure of the average tax burden, but for the state’s tax burden as a whole.

This chart shows how long it takes each state to pay its tax liabilities.

This map shows how many days or work it took each state to pay off its tax liabilities for the year. (Credit: The Tax Foundation)

She said the New Jersey’s Tax Freedom Day came a day earlier last year on April 29. It came on May 3 in 2017.

America as a whole already had its Tax Freedom Day on April 16, 105 days into the year. The Tax Foundation said in 2019, Americans will pay $3.4 trillion in federal taxes and $1.8 trillion in state and local taxes, for a total bill of over $5.2 trillion, or 29 percent of the nation’s income.

The Tax Foundation provided this chart to show how many days it takes the nation to pay off different kinds of taxes.

This chart shows how many days of work it took Americans, on average, to pay off their annual tax bill. (The Tax Foundation)

The Tax Foundation doesn’t break down the specific tax burdens for individual states.

Alaska residents have the earliest Tax Freedom Day. It was March 25 this year. Alaska is followed by other early states, including Oklahoma on March 30, and Florida and Louisiana both on April 4.

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