LANSING – Most states and all regions of the country had improved tax collections during the third quarter of 2011, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government reported, and the Great Lakes Region, including Michigan, showed the biggest growth.
The Great Lakes region saw tax collections for three major taxes up by 14.7 percent during the July-September period, the institute, based in Albany, New York, said. But much of that growth was driven by collections in Illinois, which raised taxes to head off budget deficits.
Michigan saw total collections of personal income taxes, business taxes and sales taxes up 5.4 percent during the quarter.
The institute said the 2011 third quarter was the seventh consecutive quarter state tax collections rose.
In Illinois, total collections were up 38 percent. In Indiana, they were up 10.2 percent. In Ohio, they were up 9.7 percent and in Wisconsin they were up 5 percent.
In Michigan income taxes were up 4.8 percent and sales taxes 7 percent. Corporate taxes were up by 17.6 percent.
While the Great Lakes region had the highest tax collections, the Mid-Atlantic states had the smallest overall increase at 3.6 percent, hurt by Delaware’s 13.8 percent drop in collections.
The Southwest states had the second highest collection rate increase after the Great Lakes, at 13.6 percent.
Among all the states, the institute said, total collections increased by 7.3 percent.
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