Alaska Income Tax Calculator 2026

What Alaskans pay instead of a state income tax

Alaska residents do not file a state income tax return at all. Your annual income tax bill is the federal bill alone, and the only state-level deduction from wages is the employee share of unemployment insurance. That makes the federal rules, not state rules, the thing to plan around.

For 2026, a single filer subtracts the $16,100 federal standard deduction ($32,200 for married couples filing jointly) and pays federal rates from 10% to 37% on the rest.

Worked examples: federal tax on an Alaska income

These figures come from the same engine as the calculator above, for wages only.

• The married household's UI figure assumes one earner; two earners would each pay up to the cap.
• The child tax credit of $2,200 per child is what pulls the married couple's federal bill down so far.

How the Permanent Fund Dividend is taxed

The Permanent Fund Dividend is the one piece of income nearly every Alaskan receives that has a tax angle. The 2026 payment is $1,200 ($1,000 plus a $200 energy relief payment). The IRS treats the dividend as taxable income reported on Schedule 1 (Form 1040); for the 2024 payment, which also included an energy relief amount, it said the entire payment was taxable. The state sends each recipient a statement of the amount and also reports it to the IRS.

Because nothing is withheld from the dividend, it is worth planning for. For an adult single filer on $75,000 of wages, the dividend adds about $264 of federal tax.

Moving to or from Alaska

Because Alaska has no income tax, the state you leave or move to decides how a move year is taxed. Most income-tax states treat you as a part-year resident and tax only what you earned while living there (plus any income sourced to that state afterward). Keep records of your move date, new lease or home purchase, driver's license and voter registration, since those are the facts other states look at when deciding where you were domiciled.

Moving does not change your federal return. You still file one Form 1040 for the whole year, due April 15 for most people.

Other Alaska taxes to budget for

With no income tax and no statewide sales tax, Alaska funds local government through local levies. Boroughs and cities can charge sales tax (the state average local rate is 1.82% and the highest is 7.85%), plus property and bed taxes that this calculator does not model. When comparing take-home pay with another state, add those local costs to the picture rather than looking at income tax alone.