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Complete menu of tasty state tax tidbits

As part of Don't Mess With Taxes' effort to help you meet your state tax obligations, we created a list of links to each state's and the District of Columbia's tax department Web pages.

Then we followed that up with a daily state tax tidbit for 2010 highlighting an interesting revenue fact, law or regulation in each jurisdiction. Below is the full menu of tasty state tax tidbits.

A note as to how this list grows: The state features are/will be posted in a combined alphabetical and filing deadline order, as noted in Don't forget your state taxes!

That means those states that have an April 15 deadline are featured first, followed by the states that require residents to file later in April and into May. We finish up with the seven states that don't collect a personal income tax.

So if you don't see an item about your state here yet, that's why. But it will eventually show up in its proper alphabetic place.

Alabama -- Haiti donations

Alaska --- cruise tax cut

Arizona -- solar energy credit

Arkansas -- damaged car credit

California -- Ready Refund

Colorado -- new candy, soda taxes

Connecticut -- shaming scofflaws

Delaware -- estate tax is back

District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) -- special tax hurdles

Florida -- yacht tax breaks

Georgia -- collecting from residents and nonresidents alike

Hawaii -- exceptional trees

Idaho -- grocery credt

Illinois -- watercraft use tax

Indiana -- 7 new tax schedules

Iowa -- tuition & textbook credit

Kansas -- voluntary disclosure

Kentucky -- $5K new home credit

Louisiana -- education breaks

Maine -- blueberry tax

Maryland -- charitable checkoffs

Massachusetts -- health care

Michigan -- energy credits

Minnesota -- federal add-backs

Mississippi -- casino tax

Missouri -- miscellaneous credits

Montana -- elderly homeowner/renter credit

Nebraska -- beginning farmers

Nevada -- trade show taxes

New Hampshire -- unearned income tax

New Jersey -- rich get relief

New Mexico -- age pays off

New York -- firefighters' credit

North Carolina -- digital property

North Dakota -- sales tax refunds for Canadians

Ohio -- tobacco taxes

Oklahoma -- electric vehicle tax credit

Oregon -- tax pro licensing

Pennsylvania -- amnesty

Rhode lsland -- grocery items

South Carolina -- 2-earner tax credit

South Dakota -- announcing convicted tax cheats

Tennessee -- no wage tax

Texas -- fireworks tax

Utah -- organ donation credit

Vermont -- renter rebate credit

Virginia -- agricultural taxes

Washington -- safe patient handing tax credit

West Virginia -- numerous retiree income exemptions

Wisconsin -- Roth conversions

Wyoming -- food taxes

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