Some Warn Governor Moore’s Tax Plan May Drive Marylanders to Flee to Surrounding States

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An analysis by the Tax Foundation, conducted after Moore released his 2026 budget proposal last week, showed that the revised income tax rates could significantly elevate the combined tax rate for the wealthiest Marylanders. “In total, high earners (individuals with an adjusted gross income of $1 million or more) living in counties with a 3.2 percent local income tax should expect their combined state marginal tax rate to reach 10.7 percent for some income,” the Tax Foundation’s report found. “Maryland has a spending problem, we know that,” Baltimore County Senator Johnny Ray Salling said. “That’s why they want to tax. Tax and spend.”

Blue state governors on taxes: From here in Maryland, to New York, Maine and others — as Forbes reports — a pattern of Democratic governors pushing for higher and more progressive income taxes in 2025 has come to light, while lawmakers in other parts of the country are advancing bills to make their state tax climates more hospitable by lowering rates.

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