What is your states Sale Tax?

[tnkrbell]

We are 6 %

 

[DVC-Don]

The New York State sales tax is 4%. Counties have the option to bump it up to 8%. The combined sales tax in most counties around us is 8%. Ours is 7% (4 for the state, 3 for the county). There is no state sales tax on clothes, but our county taxes clothes at 3%. Confussing huh?

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Maryland is 5%.

Delaware is 0%. Needless to say, we often travel the 6 miles to shop in Delaware.

 

[Boo'sMom]

0 Sales Tax
and 0 Income Tax here in lovely New Hampshire...


But don't even ask me about property tax......ugh.

 

[nancyj_pa]

It's 6% in PA. (food not taxable unless it's prepared; clothes not taxable either)

 

[DopeyRN]

New Orleans, La 8.75% sales tax. And I pay state income tax and also Jefferson Parish and city of Kenner homeowners tax too. Food tax is 7%.

 

[TerryKitten]

Thank you for all your posts. I apprecate it.

jellymoon, I totally understand. I'm very freightend about how our schools and kids will turn out in the coming years. Esp when we are considering to have kids of our own. We've already decided what money will have to be saved so our kids can experence things that we got to have for "free".

I work for the university and I get to hear about all the things that are going to happen if the measure in Jan doesn't happen. Lots of programs will be reduced, tuition will go up and services will go down. Fortunetly my job is not funded on State Dollars, its on student fees. But if there are no students who go to school here, then I have no job. Nice Catch 22.

 

[minniecarousel]

8.25% - as is the case in most of the Bay Area counties.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

Last I checked, in B.C. Canada we are paying 15% sales tax. This is burdensome.

 

[mamajoan]

BIG QUESTION FOR THE FOLKS IN CANADA??

Whch tax is used to fund your national insurance program?

 

[candykisses]

6%

 

[mrsdon]

Here in Shelby Co Yn we pav 9 1/4.
Shelby Co is home to memphis

 

[helenabear]

Here in Franklin County we pay 5.75%

 

[Marla Hellwig]

6.5 %

 

[Emmyfaye]

In Prince Edward Island, Canada, our sales tax is calculated as follows:

10% of cost of article or service, then 7% on top of that! The 10% is the provincial sales tax, the 7% is federal - in some Canadian provinces, these taxes are combined and total only 15%. (Only?)

In response to "which" tax is dedicated to our national insurance program, I am assuming you are referring to Medicare. To the best of my knowledge, most Canadian taxes are not "dedicated" to one program or the other; however, the income taxes we pay to the federal government form the large part of any national program. We pay income taxes, both provincial (read state) and federal, in varying amounts, depending on the provinces in which we live - but for a middle income earner, in this province we pay about 30 to 35% of our total income in these combined taxes.

Lower income earners pay little or no taxes (they may receive rebates on amounts deducted from their pay cheques, if they have dependent children, etc.). Higher income people pay proportionately higher amounts to income taxes.

And we also pay property taxes - in this province, if you live in an unincorporated area, you pay provincial property taxes only; if you live in an incorporated municipality, you pay municipal and provincial taxes.

Nevertheless, I am a proud Canadian, and I enjoy living my tiny Island province!! (On the other hand, if I paid less taxes, maybe I could visit WDW more often!)

 

[bsnyder]

I live in Florida. The state tax is 6% and my county has an additional 1/2 cent sales tax that was levied to pay for the Buccaneers new stadium (along with a few other things).

Of course, if Jeb Bush somehow loses the Governor's race to Bill McBride, we'll be looking at an increase in not only the sales tax but probably instituting a state income tax as well.

 

[Debi]

NJ's sales tax is 6%, however we are not taxed on clothing or food (unless the food is prepared). I grew up in CA, where the sales tax was 7.5% (it's gone up since I've moved out of the state), so the lower sales tax is quite a treat for me.

 

[Beanie]

Originally posted by Boo'sMom
0 Sales Tax
and 0 Income Tax here in lovely New Hampshire...


But don't even ask me about property tax......ugh.

I couldn't agree more, Boo's Mom! Ugh!

 

[WDW2002]

California State Sales tax is 7.25% some Counties have their own sales tax in addition to the state tax. This is on all items, excluding groceries.

 

[WDWfanatic288]

8.25%

in Texas