How much is sales tax in your state?

[undeterred]

Or sales taxes, as the case may be... in WI transactions can be subject to 4 different sales taxes. They are the 5% WI state sales tax, the 1/2% county tax, the 1/4% Milwaukee Exposition District food and beverage tax and the 1/10% stadium tax.

[Maddy McCall]

1. Mississippi 7%

Extra tourism taxes, etc. in some municipalities.

[NMDemDist2]

2. NM 8.1% which is the same it was in PHX too n/t

[undeterred]

5. yikes!

[NMDemDist2]

35. see my answer below to Warpy, i'm feeling like I've got a bargin n/t

[Warpy]

15. Good, I feel a LITTLE less picked on

Tax here used to be 6% plus change until the tax on food was removed. The sales tax on everything else jumped and so did all licenses and fees.

My property tax has gone up 50% in ten years. The assessment has stayed nearly the same.

Typical DLC, pretend to cut taxes on the poorest and make them so "revenue neutral" that most working stiffs wind up with a huge tax INCREASE.

[NMDemDist2]

34. my property taxes are $167 a year

and most of that goes to DMV for the trailer so it all works out

it's a far cry from the house in PHX which cost me over $1400 a year (also doubled in 9 years i was there--same house twice the cost)

[vicman]

37. Groceries are no longer taxed in NM n/t

[NMDemDist2]

38. they weren't in PHX either, but lots of the little suburb towns did n/t

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

3. 6% in Kentucky.

[RB TexLa]

4. I actually have no idea, but I also have no idea what they are or are

not going to charge it on, I've bought things by themselves and had no tax charged. Makes no sense.

[undeterred]

7. We have no charge on food.

[femmocrat]

6. PA, 6% but 7% in Allegheny County.

[Suich]

8. Seattle, WA: 8.8% n/t

[Big Kahuna]

9. 0% New Hampshire rocks! :)

In Oklahoma it was close to 10%, on everything including groceries and clothing.. f*cking red states. x(

[Horse with no Name]

10. Texas 8 1/4% n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

11. 5% For Taxachusetts

Turns out that Mass. is one of the less-taxed states.

Blue works better!

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. Whoda thunk MA wasn't right up there?

[Sydnie]

42. Add in no tax on food or clothes

and it looks better and better all the time. :)

[flamingyouth]

12. 8.8% in Washington (King County)

[Left Is Write]

13. 6% sales tax in Idaho. This includes clothing and groceries.

[Mist]

14. Technically, state sales tax is 4.5%, but "localities" can add up to

2.5%. So where I live, it's 7%.

[stevedeshazer]

16. Zero.

There's a nine percent state income tax, though.

[MissB]

22. Yeah, and then let us talk about property taxes...

(having just written a big ol' check last week for those....)

[stevedeshazer]

29. That's for sure

Ours are baked into our never-ending house paymant.

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. 6.25% IL...south of Chicago n/t

[TahitiNut]

18. 6% in Michigan

But we have a flat income tax, too. :puke:

[bbgrunt]

19. You can easily find state by state tax information here

State Sales Taxes -- updated January 1, 2006

* State Sales Taxes--Food and Drug Exemptions, Adobe Acrobat version
* State Sales Taxes and Vendor Discounts, Adobe Acrobat version
* State and Local Sales Tax Rates, Adobe Acrobat version - July 1, 2004
* FTA Report - State Sales Taxation of Servcies - April, 97 2002 Updates

http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/tax_stru.html

[shadowknows69]

20. 8%

Yay NY, better do something Spitzer.

[elocs]

23. If we started all over and there were no taxes, how would we pay for things?

I've posed this question to many without comment, especially those who complain about taxes. Nobody ever had an answer. Everybody wants their things paid for, their pet needs and projects, their street have the snow plowed and they all don't like to pay for it. Especially ones who have no kids in school hate to pay anything for schools. The odd thing is that they might have ONCE had kids in school. It's still a good brain storming question.

With the county tax here in La Crosse we pay 6.5%.

[Kali]

36. And those kids that do live in their area will be voting on taxes to pay for

those old farts' golf courses and medicare etc etc - not to mention doing all the jobs the idiots expect trained educated workers to perform from restaurant servers to surgeons. Morans.

[NOLADEM]

24. 9 % in New Orleans

Plus property tax, income tax & transaction fee on real estate.

[baldguy]

NY is 4%, most counties add another 3%, NYC adds another 1-1/4% on top of that.

[Ksec]

25. Like 6 or 7 in Ohio

[magellan]

26. FL - 7.5% tops, but no state income tax (nt)

[Kali]

27. AZ - info stolen from several websites

Arizona Transaction Privilege Tax (sales) and Use tax rates generally are 6.3 percent. Currently, all fifteen counties levy a tax. The state rate on transient lodging (hotel/motel) is 7.27%.

The state of Arizona does not levy a state tax on food for home consumption or on drugs prescribed by a licensed physician or dentist. This means food purchased at retail outlets for home consumption (grocery stores). But cities are allowed to do so, and almost all of them do, except Phoenix, Mesa, and Youngtown. When shopping in those cities, be aware of buying grocery items in stores that are not really grocery stores.

All fifteen Arizona counties levy a tax. Incorporated municipalities also levy transaction privilege taxes which, with the exception of their hotel/motel tax, are generally in the range of 1-to-3 percent. These added assessments could push the combined sales tax rate to as high as 10.7 percent.

Just made a hotel reservation for the Phx area - tax to be added will be 12.07%.
I think livestock feed may be exempt.

[BuyingThyme]

28. Wow! I had no idea how much the states were cashing in.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

30. Washington 6.5% - no income tax

[SeattleGirl]

41. In Seattle, it's 8.8%.

Nasty, nasty, nasty.

[Kali]

31. if you REALLY care

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States

A sales tax is a tax on consumption and is normally a certain percentage that is added onto the price of a good or service that is purchased. Sales taxes in the United States are assessed by most states except Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon. In some cases, sales taxes are also assessed at the county or municipal level. While there is no national sales tax in the United States, the most popular tax reform proposal in Congress is the Fair Tax Act, which would replace most federal taxes with a national retail sales tax and monthly tax rebate to households of citizens and legal resident aliens.

[tammywammy]

32. Texas State Sales Tax = 6.25%

With the city's local tax added in it's 8.25% total.

[Cleita]

33. It varies by county but averages between 7% and 7.5%n/t

[misternormal]

39. 9.5% when they are all totalled up.... n/t

[Pastiche423]

40. Oregon 0%

[Nicole]

43. Oklahoma: 8.3%

State: 4.5%
City: 3.8%

[Blue_In_AK]

44. No state sales tax in Alaska...

Some of the towns and boroughs have a small sales tax, like 2 percent or something, but nothing here in Anchorage. We have no state income tax either, but our property taxes are pretty high.

[Greybnk48]

45. 5% in WI n/t

[Carla in Ca]

46. CA is 7.75%

ouch!