In Pennsylvania there’s a 3.07 percent state income tax, but Social Security benefits, pensions, and retirement distributions are tax exempt. Even local taxes apply only to earned income, and the average 6.34 percent sales tax doesn’t apply to clothing and nonprescription drugs.
But the median property tax on the median home value of $167,700 is $2,603 — the 13th-highest in the country — and a state inheritance tax applies broadly.
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