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Well yeah, urban areas naturally need lots of services and upkeep.
Well, no because a lot of it may be simply beyond the cities control as it's set at the state level. Seattle, WA comes to mind as an urban city with low taxes since there is no state income tax.
Anchorage, Cheyenne, Sioux Falls, Fargo and Billings are all quite small. Cheyenne has less than 55,000 people (smaller than some suburbs). The infrastructure requirements are much lower in a city like that.
The interesting city to look at is Houston. Perhaps because the infrastructure is relatively new it's not as expensive to maintain as older cities?
Well, no because a lot of it may be simply beyond the cities control as it's set at the state level. Seattle, WA comes to mind as an urban city with low taxes since there is no state income tax.
Seattle has a sales tax of about 9%. It also has a pretty high property tax and business tax.
Most municipalities get most of their revenues locally, not set by the states. So as someone said earlier, more services generally require more revenue, which is generally made up by taxes.
But my question isn't where municipalities derive the majority of their income or the level of services they provide. My question is which urban cities have the lowest taxes be it property, sales, or income?
Seattle's sales tax of 9% and high property taxes is still going to result in less taxation than many other urban cities simply due to the fact that there is no state income tax.
In San Francisco the sales tax is 9.5%, it has much higher property taxes on the median priced home, and the income tax is nearly 10 percent at the top level.
Houston is another good example however I neglected to mention it as it's debatable if it's urban in nature. ;-) j/k
Miami, maybe? Very urban and no state income tax in FL.
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