[oppositelock]

Come to CA.

If you make over $66k, your income tax is 9.3%, going up to 13.3% if you make FANG money.

We have a roughly 10% sales tax.

You'll pay about 1.25-1.5% of your overpriced home's value in property tax annually.

And your car is going to cost you a few $hundred to register every year.

If you're a fan of any specific kind of tax, we've got them all here.

[jeffbee]

> If you make over $66k, your income tax is 9.3%, going up to 13.3% if you make FANG money.

The marginal rate is 9.3% above 66k. If your AGI is $67k your taxes are ~$3000. There is no 13.3% bracket. There is a 12.3% bracket for marginal income above $677k, which fewer than 1% of Californians earn.

[oppositelock]

You pay surcharges not included in the base tax rate as income goes up. There's a 1% surcharge over $1M income that's from a passed proposition. I've never hit it, doubt that I will, but it's there.

[apsurd]

pay to play. i don't get it, California should pay you to be here? im not aussie but i love their saying: what are you on about, mate?

[hnben]

all those taxes are super low imo, except maybe that property tax.

[oppositelock]

In the US, you pay state tax and federal tax separately, so those are only the state taxes. If you're paying the maximum marginal rate in CA, you're also paying 37% federal rate and a 3.8% surcharge on investment income on top of that.

[professoretc]

You also have to remember that in CA the assessed value of your home (on which your property tax is based) will never go up more than 2% per year. So while the property tax rate may be higher than some other places, if you stay in your home for more than a few years, the actual amount of property tax you pay will quickly be lower than it would be elsewhere.