With tax season comes a parade of obscure tax laws — some complicated, others just plain bizarre. The tax code covers almost any person, scenario or object you can imagine. Take bows and arrows, for example. By decree of Uncle Sam, bow manufacturers must pay an 11 percent tax on any bow with a "peak draw weight of 30 pounds or more." And if the arrow shafts are longer than 18 inches? That's an additional fee. It's all part of a a federal tax code detailed in about 2,700 pages of statutes.
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Put the federal tax rules next to state rules, however, and suddenly the national regulations become sane and sensible.
The team at Credio, a personal finance data site covering investment advisors, consumers banks and more, set out to find the weirdest, strangest tax law in each state, with an emphasis on the surprising numbers behind the laws. In one state, for example, people over 100 years old are exempt from income taxes. In another, bachelors between 21 and 50 must pay $1 per year.
The Credio team also ordered the list from lowest to highest median income, and noted each state's tax rate at that level of income. Median income means that half of the people have incomes above that amount and half below that amount.
With that said, here are the weirdest tax laws in each state.