Updated September 5, 2026. Quick answer: No. Wyoming has preempted the field of income taxation for itself and never enacted one.
Confidence note: high. This page is scoped to Social Security taxation specifically. For the state’s full retirement-tax picture (pensions, tax rates, estate and probate), see how Wyoming taxes retirement income generally.
How Wyoming taxes Social Security benefits
| State personal income tax | No |
|---|---|
| Social Security treatment | No state income tax |
| How it works | Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 39-12-101 provides that “the state of Wyoming does hereby preempt for itself the field of imposing and levying income taxes … based on wages or other income,” and no such tax has ever been enacted. |
Statute and sources
Governing citation: Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 39-12-101.
Read September 5, 2026.
Coordinate this with your overall retirement plan
An adviser can help weigh how much of your Social Security income actually reaches you after state tax, whether the timing of other withdrawals affects that, and how it fits the rest of your plan, but that does not replace the numbers in your own return.
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