Politics & Government
14 Highest, Lowest Tax Collection Rates in CT; Is Paying Taxes Patriotic?
Counting down the towns with the highest and lowest tax collection rates. This week we're also putting the question to you, the reader: is paying taxes a measure of patriotism?
Whether the act of taxation is patriotic or not (we did start a war of independence over the issue), each person paying their share in support of the community is the basis of our modern social contract.
Though sometimes painful, the act of supporting the community and greater good, even at one’s own expense, is the definition of American patriotism.
But is paying taxes overtly patriotic?
The lists above and below show the towns with the 14 highest and lowest collection rates, respectively, based on all outstanding taxes and grand lists. The lists also include the total taxes collected as a percent of the current fiscal year’s tax levy.
Check out the tax collection stats for every town in the state here.
What do you think? Is paying taxes patriotic?
Lowest Tax Collection Rates in CT
Plainfield
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 93.4 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 100 percent
Stafford
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 93.2 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 98.1 percent
North Canaan
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 92.9 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 98.4 percent
Meriden
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 92.8 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 99 percent
Waterbury
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 92.8 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 97.9 percent
Montville
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 92.6 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 95.8 percent
Beacon Falls
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 91.9 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 98.9 percent
Ansonia
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 91.5 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 99.2 percent
Plymouth
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 89.5 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 97.9 percent
New Britain
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 89.1 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 99.4 percent
Oxford
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 88.2 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 99.3 percent
Naugatuck
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 86.7 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 98.5 percent
Bridgeport
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 86.5 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 98.1 percent
Hartford
- Rate as Percent of Outstanding Taxes: 86.1 percent
- Collected as Percent of Levy: 96.5 percent
(Data based on figures from the state Office of Policy Management’s records on Municipal Fiscal Indicators from 2008-2012.)
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