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.
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.
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).