10 Best Tax States for Small Business 2011

The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council recently released its "Business Tax Index 2011: Best to Worst State Tax Systems for Entrepreneurship and Small Business," which ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on their tax systems.The index pulls together 18 different tax measures and combines them into one tax score that allows them to be compared with one another. Among the taxes included are income, capital gains, property, death/inheritance, unemployment, and various consumption-based taxes, including state gas and diesel levies. (REUTERS)