Given that tax day has just passed, I thought it would be good to check out some data on taxes. The IRS provides a great resource on tax data that I’ve only just gotten into. I think I’ll be able to do more with this in the future. This one looks at how taxes paid varies by state and presents it as a choropleth map (coloring states based on certain categories of tax data).



Mean Federal Tax Paid

Mean Adjusted Gross Income

Mean State/Local Tax

Mean Combined (Fed/State/Local) Tax

Percent Income from Dividends and Capital Gains

Percent of Returns with Itemized Deductions

Number of Tax Returns

Mean Federal Tax Rate

Mean State/Local Tax Rate

Mean Combined (Fed/State/Local) Rate

Total Federal Tax Liability

You can choose from a number of different categories:

I may add more categories in the future, so if you have ideas of tax data you want to see visualized let me know and I’ll see what I can do.

For other tax-related tools and visualizations see my tax bracket calculator and visualization of marginal tax rates.

Data and Tools:

Data on tax returns by state is from the IRS website in an excel format. The map was made using the leaflet open source mapping library. Data was compiled in excel and calculations made using javascript.



