I saw this article and wasn’t particularly impressed. Isn’t most people’s sales tax around 9 to 10%? The poll they did doesn’t really mean much.
N Little Rock is 9.5%. 6.5% Ark state sales tax, 2% city, 1% county.
Little Rock is 9% the city gets 1.5%
Generally crossing the bridge into N Little Rock isn’t a big deal. The extra .5% on Restaurant bills is negligible. You’d probably want to buy your new 28k car in Little Rock.
We do have a low state income tax rate that offsets the sales tax.
10%, called GST here. It’s the same nationwide in Australia, with no local variation.
Quite handy, that; the price on the shelf will be the final price you pay.
Still looking around my state.
Texarkana ties with Chicago but that article doesn’t mention our city. Not that record high sales tax is anything to celebrate.
The combined sales tax rate for Texarkana, AR is 10.25%. This is the total of state, county and city sales tax rates. The Arkansas state sales tax rate is currently 6.5%. The Miller County sales tax rate is 1.25%.Texarkana: 2.5%
I pay 10% in Washington. The rate depends on where you live. I’ll drive 8 miles from Auburn to Covington to take advantage of the 8.6% rate there. The tax rate is going to 9.4% in Covington next month, that will likely not make it worth the drive for me.
The state sales tax in Kansas is 6.5%, but cities, counties, and various special districts can impose additional taxes.
For example, the “Goodland Holiday Inn Express Community Improvement District” is at 11% (state 6.5%, Cheyenne County 2%, Goodland city 0.5%, and 2% for the CID), and there’s a convenience store in Chanute that charges 11.5%.
Maine has a state sales tax of 5.5% on most goods. There are no taxes on most services, but a handful of services are taxed at 6%. So when you take your car in for servicing, the parts are taxed but the labor is not. There are no county or local sales taxes. Ordinary groceries are not taxed. Meals, whether at a restaurant or from the grocery store, are taxed at 8%. Buying sandwich fixings and make your own sandwiches incurs zero tax. Buying a wrapped ready-made sandwich from the same grocery store incurs an 8% tax. Hotel rooms are taxed at 9%. Car rentals are also taxed, but I’m not sure what the rate is. There was recently a proposal to let towns and cities add an additional 1% meals and hotel tax but it failed.
I used to live across the border in New Hampshire, there is no tax on general merchandise. Meals and rooms are taxed at 9%. I think car rentals are also taxed, but I’m not sure.
Before that I lived in West Virginia. Back then the general tax rate was 5% but it applied to everything, even groceries, which shocked me. Until I moved there, I’d never heard of a state that taxed groceries. I gather that since I moved away they have raised the rate to 6% but they now exempt ordinary groceries. They still tax meals.
And technically Washingtonians are supposed to self-report those purchases and pay use tax to Washington state.
Also, you should know that Oregonians visiting Washington now have to pay sales tax at the register. They can then apply for a refund from Washington’s Department of Revenue. (It was recently changed from when you could avoid paying sales tax to begin with.)
Norway here. 0 to 25 %, depending on what you are buying or renting. In general its set up so basic services and entertainment have no or reduced VAT.
No VAT on any form of healthcare, social businesses such as childminding or kindergartens, education, theater, circus and similar, art, finance and property, all turnover below 6000$.
Things like food, transport, cinema tickets etc is half VAT.
Generally, VAT do not act like a tax and we do not call it a tax.
