when did ct institute the income tax?
Connecticut became the most recent state to institute an income tax, which was signed into law by Gov. Lowell Weicker in 1991, and the state has since been a case study demonstrating how instituting and raising income taxes beget more spending and bigger government.
On July 1, 2011, tax law changes increased the Connecticut income tax brackets from three (3 percent, 5 percent and 6.5 percent) to six tax brackets, which apply to the following incomes.