Taxes in Ketchikan
Ketchikan's tax picture combines Alaska's genuinely rare no-income-tax, no-statewide-sales-tax structure with a locally modest property and sales tax rate.
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Learn moreNo state income tax, at all
Alaska levies no state individual income tax on wages, salaries, or investment income -- a real, current, unambiguous status applying in Ketchikan as statewide.
A property tax rate below the national median
Ownwell cited Ketchikan's own median effective property tax rate at approximately 0.93%, below both the Ketchikan Gateway Borough median (1.16%) and the national median (1.02%).
A real, local 4.5% sales tax
Alaska levies no statewide general sales tax, but Ketchikan itself levies a real, current local sales tax of 4.5% on most transactions.
Key takeaways
- Alaska's real, current no-state-income-tax status applies in Ketchikan as statewide.
- Ketchikan's own effective property tax rate (0.93%) runs below the national median.
- Ketchikan levies a real, local 4.5% sales tax, despite no statewide sales tax existing.
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