# How much combined sales tax do you pay? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 18, 2019, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-combined-sales-tax-do-you-pay/838835 "2019-08-18T10:45:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-combined-sales-tax-do-you-pay/838835/61 "2019-08-26T21:38:25Z")
8.25% - Dallas. 6.25% of that is the Texas sales tax, 1% is the City of Dallas, and 1% is for public transit. You can go find places outside the major metro areas where there are different allocations- some places have a 0.5% county tax for property tax relief, and others have different city or public transit tax. However, the overall maximum is capped by the state at 8.25%. So for example, if you were to go nearby to Terrell, TX (birthplace of Jamie Foxx and Robert H. Dennard), you’d see a 2% city tax and nothing else. It’s rare but not unheard of to find somewhere that actually has a sales tax rate less than 8.25%. Most places like that are tiny little towns out in the country though. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-combined-sales-tax-do-you-pay/838835/62 "2019-08-27T15:50:16Z")
8.5% back home in Florida. 19% VAT here in Germany. ---
**Author:** ![sps49sd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@sps49sd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sps49sd)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-combined-sales-tax-do-you-pay/838835/63 "2019-09-24T03:22:27Z")
8.375% in my home county, 9.5% in SF. Plus state income tax. Property tax is a bit over 1%. Zero tax on food, generally. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-combined-sales-tax-do-you-pay/838835/64 "2019-11-11T04:17:41Z")
> [@Grim\_Render](#): > > Actually, we call it “Merverdiavgift (mva)” > > It just doesn’t act like I as a tax payer and not a business see a tax acting. Not subtracted from my wages, but based on how much I buy, and what I buy. The word “avgift” seem to cover it much better. I am not sure if there is a specific word in english that covers that. Translations sugget it covers “fee, toll, charge, excise or poundage”. _Gift_ is a noun root across various Germanic languages that means something given or paid to someone else. In English, of course, it means “present”. In German _Mitgift_ means “dowry”. If it means a tax in Norwegian I am not surprised. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-combined-sales-tax-do-you-pay/838835/65 "2019-11-11T06:47:28Z")
Yes, we enjoy a 10.25% sales tax on most items in Chicago. But it is largely mitigated by our confiscatory property taxes, horrendous murder rates, and unprecedented political corruption. So it all works out in the end! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-combined-sales-tax-do-you-pay/838835/66 "2019-11-11T08:32:47Z")
Heres what it says when I asked about the sale tax where I live in ca on bing : State Tax Rate: 7.250% State-wide Local Rate Range: 7.250% - 10.500% State Change Date: 7/1/2019 City Total Rate: 9.500% See also: USA · California ---
**Author:** ![RickG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rickg/32/5174_2.png) [@RickG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickG)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-combined-sales-tax-do-you-pay/838835/67 "2019-11-12T16:10:40Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Yes, we enjoy a 10.25% sales tax on most items in Chicago. But it is largely mitigated by our confiscatory property taxes, horrendous murder rates, and unprecedented political corruption. So it all works out in the end! You do get those nice discount admissions to the museums, though. And there was only one shooting on her block in the two years our daughter lived on Printer’s Row (she’s now in Wicker Park, being the 20-something hipster social media manager she is). As to the OP, from [here](http://www.tax-rates.org/colorado/boulder_sales_tax): > [@](#): > > The Boulder, Colorado sales tax is 8.85% , consisting of 2.90% Colorado state sales tax and 5.95% Boulder local sales taxes.The local sales tax consists of a 0.99% county sales tax, a 3.86% city sales tax and a 1.10% special district sales tax (used to fund transportation districts, local attractions, etc). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-combined-sales-tax-do-you-pay/838835.md?page=3)