At $8 to $10 a square foot today, taxes account for about 20 percent to 25 percent of the rent roll.

In the early 1980s, direct taxes accounted for about 15% of government revenues.

In Connecticut, sales and use taxes accounted for 44 percent of the $46 million raised during a 1995 amnesty.

The tax on cigarettes now accounts for roughly 10 percent of government revenue.

In fact, during 1953, tax on rice accounted for 32 percent of government revenue.

Direct and indirect taxes account for 62.8% of total revenues in 2007.

But municipal and county taxes together account for only about 30 percent of the total property tax, while the rest goes to schools.

By 2009, taxes accounted for nearly a third of the maintenance fee.

In New Jersey, local taxes account for almost half of the state's total revenue.

Corporate taxes account for only 9.2 percent of total Federal receipts, a statistic that has declined over the years.