Geez!!! 7.75% Sales Tax - you got to be kidding me

[LynneSin]

Ok, in San Diego - can't I just tell them I refuse to support the asshole gropenator and I'm from a tax-free state so I should be exempt?

:shrug:

Don't mind me - too much Sake

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. That's nothing.

It's 8.3 in some places in Washington. Higher elsewhere.

But no state income tax, though.

Best of both worlds. Live and work in Vancouver - shop in Portland.

[Elidor]

8. That's nothing

9.75% here in Tennessee.

[Spirochete]

11. They don't pay sales tax over here

so I don't feel too bad about popping over the bridge to Jantzen Beach to buy things, either.

[AntiCoup2K4]

12. Is it true that the WSP stops cars with WA plates coming over the bridge..

...in December and tries to bill them for the sales tax of any Oregon purchased items they find in the car?

[Omphaloskepsis]

14. I lived in Portland for four years..

Never heard of that.

[philosophie_en_rose]

24. I'm not sure that that happens.

Maybe if law enforcement has some other reason to stop you, but I doubt that they could prove you bought anything over the border. I guess it's possible, but it's not likely.

I've been doing it for years and have never been questioned by anyone.

[NoPasaran]

25. I think that the part of the Constitution

Reserving the regulation of interstate commerce to the federal govt. would prohibit that.

[Spirochete]

26. I think those are mostly rumors

they like to spread to scare people. Supposedly they started cracking down a few years ago after they caught a woman coming back over the I-205 bridge with a carload of cigarettes, but that was the only such incident I've heard of.

[flamingyouth]

18. It's 8.8 in King County.

[KG]

23. 7 per cent in pinellas co. FL, but FL has no state income tax.

[In_The_Wind]

2. 8%

x(

[ghostsofgiants]

3. It's 15% in myprovince...I win...

Or lose...

[billyskank]

13. I'll see your 15% and raise you 2.5%

17.5% VAT in my country! :bounce:

And that's not just a sales tax - it's levied on services too! :woohoo:

[Canadian Socialist]

22. Same with Canada

we have a 7% GST (goods & services tax) on everything. There are some odd exceptions though. Like food, if you buy fewer than 6 doughnuts, GST applies. 6 or more, no GST. The one I hate is on gasoline. There is a tax on the tax!

[billyskank]

27. Hell yeah!

I like the fuel duty wheeze. It's brilliant! The treasury levies duty on petrol at x pence per litre (and it's the lion's share of the pump price). Then VAT gets levied on the whole amount, duty included! Tax on a tax! Which fucking genius thought that one up?
:bounce:

[GirlinContempt]

20. HAH

14 here & i love it

[Omphaloskepsis]

4. No VAT here.

:P

[tibbir]

5. 8.25% in Houston but no income tax

which would make things fairer.

[miss_kitty]

6. 8.9% in Seattle-maybe more by now

we have no state income tax. Very regressive.

[SeattleGirl]

7. I think it's still hanging at 8.9%

But it wouldn't surprise me if it goes up!

[fortyfeetunder]

10. unless you dine out

Then it's a whopping 9.1% (gotta pay for the stadiums....)

[politicat]

9. 8.25% here... and we have income tax.

Must build new stadiums, you know.

[Maine Mary]

15. Is that how you spell it? Sake?

I'll put that in my "good-to know" category.

As for sports, unless we are talking, Patriots, Celtics or Red Sox, I'm with you all the way babe.


Hmmm. would some other team's win (that you like) be a disadvantage to the teams I like? Shows what I know about this stuff :eyes:)

Whatever. :hug: to you

[baldguy]

16. 8% in New York

All the 'pukes say "we've got the highest taxes in the country!"

Of course they say the same thing in Mass & NJ & Conn....

[tjdee]

17. Is that why NJ's malls are always crowded??

Our sales tax is only 6%.

And, we live with Democrats. How lucky!

[bridgit]

19. well, good luck with that, but then it's all like...

Mmmm, warm Sake :thumbsup:

ps, it is time to terminate the terminator however :patriot:

[Gormy Cuss]

21. What really stinks is that it's different in each county.

I never know what it'll be here and the amounts are weird increments -try figuring 8.25% in your head, even without Sake.

Sales taxes are high here to make up for some of the lost potential from property taxes under Prop 13. We pay .25% to fund transportation infrastructure, .125% for libraries, and on and on.
The tax man gets us in one form or another.