Lege Trend: Income Based Taxes v. Sales Taxes

State legislative trends show that Legislatures are favoring:

• reducing income based taxes
• increasing sales taxes

In 1990 Texas:

• sales tax collections were 80.5% of Texas revenue. 
• property taxes were 8.3% 
• license tax was 11.2%

In 2014 Texas:

• sales tax collections were 82.8% of Texas revenue. 
• property taxes were 10.9% 
• license tax was 6.3%

License taxes peaked in 2010 at 16.6%. Governing