In New York, for example, potential McDonald's employees must be 15 years old. In Australia, the age is 14. If you are interested in working for McDonald's, you should contact your local franchise to determine their age requirements. Each state determines legal age for employment.
Residents of Connecticut pay the highest federal, state and local taxes in the country â some $7,150 on average per person in 2013, according to the latest data from the Tax Foundation. (That's likely because the state also had the highest per-capita income at $60,658.). Your tax burden also comes in many different forms, depending on your state's tax structure. In Oregon, for example, nearly 40% of the state revenues come from individual income taxes. Six states (Alaska, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming) collect no income tax. But those states lean more heavily than others on sales and property taxes to pay government expenses.
California state taxes are among the worst in the country, according to the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan, non-profit research group in Washington D.C. The state has the highest state-level sales tax rate in the nation at 7.5 percent, although this is slated to drop to 7.3 percent at the end of 2016. Combined with local sales taxes, the rate can reach as high as 10 percent in some California cities. The state also has some of the highest income tax rates in the country.