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State · 2026 tax year · No Income Tax
Texas 2026 Income Tax
Texas levies no state income tax, your state line is $0 at every income. Federal tax and FICA still apply; see the full picture below.
Texas at $100K, in one line
A single filer earning $100,000 of taxable income owes $0 in Texas state income tax, only federal tax (~$16,914) and FICA (~$7,650) apply, a combined ~24.6% effective. Texas ranks #7 of 51 jurisdictions by state-tax burden (1 = lowest).
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Texas versus the states next-most-affordable for taxes
Other US states ranked just above Texas on the $100K single-filer state-tax burden, the next tier of "low-tax" jurisdictions.
Because Texas has no state income tax, the meaningful comparison isn't "neighbors above and below" (everyone with tax is "above" us at any income level) - it's the nearest tier of low-tax states a Texas resident might compare against if they relocated. Each card below shows that state's top marginal rate, structure, and the dollar burden a $100K single filer would face. Compared to Texas's $0, the gap is the cost-of-tax of moving away from one of the nine no-income-tax jurisdictions.
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How this calculator works
This calculator applies Texas's progressive tax brackets to the income you enter, moving each dollar through the correct marginal rate until the full amount is accounted for. The effective rate shown at the bottom is the total tax divided by gross income, a useful number for budgeting because it represents what you actually pay on every dollar earned, not just the headline marginal rate. We never apply a flat percentage to total income. Standard deductions and common adjustments are applied in the same order the tax authority applies them, so the result matches the official calculation within rounding error. If you file jointly, select the joint filing status, brackets widen substantially and the difference is meaningful for middle-income households.
Required inputs: gross income, filing status.
Source: Texas Department of Revenue, 2026 brackets
About Texas 2026 Income Tax
Texas is one of nine US jurisdictions imposing no broad-based personal income tax. Residents pay federal income tax and FICA payroll tax but no state income tax on wages, salary, or self-employment income. Texas funds operations through alternative revenue mechanisms, sales taxes, property taxes, severance taxes, gaming taxes, or business taxes, varying by state. Federal income tax on $100,000 single-filer 2026 taxable income is $16,914 (effective 16.91%, marginal 22%) and FICA on $100,000 wages adds $7,650, both identical across all 51 US jurisdictions. Total federal-plus-FICA burden in Texas: ~$24,564 effective 24.56%. State-level tax burden: $0.
Key Texas Tax Notes (2026)
No state income tax. Constitutionally prohibited without voter approval.
Source: Texas Department of Revenue, 2026 personal income tax publications. Source: Tax Foundation State Individual Income Tax Rates and Brackets 2026. Source: IRS Revenue Procedure 2025-32, 2026 federal inflation adjustments.
Texas ranks #7 of 51 US jurisdictions by state tax burden at $100K single-filer income (1 = lowest burden).
Quick Texas State Tax Estimate
Enter taxable income to see Texas state tax owed for 2026 (single filer). For full federal + state + FICA, use the main calculator.
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Methodology
Bracket schedule loaded from Texas Department of Revenue 2026 publications and cross-checked against the Tax Foundation aggregator. Quick-estimate computation walks the brackets in order applying each marginal rate to the income within the bracket boundary. See the full methodology page for the complete computation pipeline including FICA / SECA and the Additional Medicare surcharge.
Every figure on PlainTaxCalc is rendered directly from IRS Revenue Procedure and state Department of Revenue data, no number is typed in by an editor. This state's figures are rendered directly from IRS Revenue Procedure and state Department of Revenue data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-06-21T16:16:39.454Z.