Abstract:
In 1951, North Carolina is credited with paying the Federal treasury over $837 million, or 1.64 percent of the the total taxes collected from all states and territories. This however, does not include revenue from tobacco taxes, customs,
or internal revenue such as excise taxes. In that, North Carolina ranks 15th out of all states in the money taken from taxpayers into the Federal Treasury. On the other hand, North Carolina ranks 43 in per capita tax payments.