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VAT (value added tax) should not be implemented by the United States. I know the VAT is to help raise tax revenue and lower over consumption by Americans. However, U.S. is trying create a tariff that won’t reduce trade deficits. The states should be the ones to levy such actions. I suggest a multi-tiered sales tax structure that would encourage local, state and federal consumption and discourages foreign imports. Of course, exemptions for food and energy will have to be factored in. The current sales tax in Arkansas is 6.25 percent for everything. City and County varies. Under the new plan the state tax could be as high 12 percent. However, the highest percent would be for products made 100 percent overseas.
State sales tax structure…
You could even take this further to the local level; however, adding three new sales tax brackets is enough. Overall, Americans will never buy what supports American jobs unless it is beneficial to them at the moment. (like saving money) I am just as guilty of buying cheap plastic crap from China. And would I bitch if the U.S. government tried to instate a VAT tax. However, I would complain less to this tax structure because it's so geared to U.S. jobs. But I would in the short term pay more in taxes. Any suggestions?
The section on Chicago sales taxes that says it is not 10.5% as of July 1st has a reference to #63, which is unrelated to what is being said. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.158.134.122 ( talk) 16:53, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
According to a friend who lives in Washington, this page is not accurate, and requires overhaul and updates. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.170.33.246 ( talk) 11:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I live in Washington state and this reference is not even close to accurate. 6.5 percent? I wish! Try more like 9.5%!
Some one may want to double-check the Illinois entry. Sales tax in much of the city of Chicago/Cook County today is a whopping 11.5%. It was raised from 10.25% on July 1, I think. —Preceding
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"There is no New York City sales tax imposed on the purchase of clothing and footwear regardless of the amount." This has been repealed by NYS DTF Notice N-09-12. Breukelen ( talk) 20:41, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
How do states get around Article 1, Section 9 [No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State] of the Constitution? I guess that would depend on what the definition of exported is?
When you place an order with a company in another state, which tax is applied? -- 80.184.70.185 17:30, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
The information given for the distribution of the 7.25% in California does not agree with the PDF I added as a source documenting how the structure of the tax is criticized. But that PDF may be out of date. I will update this from official BOE sources shortly. -- Beland 23:20, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
This entry needs a reference to online sales tax, including how tax is assessed for online purchases for companies in the same state as the purchaser and out of state. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.113.48.17 ( talk) 19:36, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I would like to contribute to the referencing of this article. References would be helpful not just to enhance credibility, but to make it easier for future editors to maintain the page. I happen to have a list US State tax department names and links, such as: Nevada Department of Taxation, and a few links to sites with info on all states. There seem to be two approaches. (1) Put a list of all fifty departments and links in a references section at the end. (2) Put the link for each department in the appropriate state section, and create a references section only for links to sites with info on all or multiple states. I propose approach (2). Thoughts?-- Niku 01:09, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Please see the section below about summary style. Mike Dillon 01:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Before I spend the entire night changing the fractions (I changed one section before I realized that they're everywhere), I want a second opinion. I feel that the fractions are ugly, and should be shown as decimals instead. Here's an excerpt from the Florida section, with the second being without fractions:
This is 1% in most counties, ½% in many, 1½% in very few, and ¼% in one county.
This is 1% in most counties, .5% in many, 1.5% in very few, and .25% in one county.
Comments? koolman2 11:07, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
If I live in California, and buy something from another state, the interstate commerce clause will apply, and I would not have to pay any sort of sales tax? -- 67.49.215.31 04:04, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Sales tax is only required for orders shipping to destinations within our resident states of business. Therefore, all orders shipping to California, Tennessee and New Jersey will be charged sales tax according to the appropriate tax rate. Additionally, all orders shipping to Puerto Rico will be assessed a 6.6% duty tax and a $5.00 handling surcharge.
-- 67.49.215.31 04:07, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
A reader sent in the following question to me recently in regards to sales taxes on online sales:
"I buy a lot of stuff on the internet for my business. Recently I bought something in an online auction, and when the seller sent me his invoice, he added my state's sales tax to my winning bid. I thought this was odd, because the seller's located in another state and I didn't think you had to charge sales tax on interstate sales. Is there something going on here I should know about?"
Generally, when you're selling stuff--online or otherwise--you charge sales tax only when the buyer is located in the same state as you. Under current law, which may be changing soon (see below), you're not supposed to charge sales tax on sales to buyers who live in other states.
There are two exceptions to this, however, and your seller probably fell into one of them:
First, if the seller has an office, warehouse, distribution facility or retail location in your state, the seller may have to charge you sales tax because he is legally "doing business" in your state. This is why, when you buy something from a mail order catalogue, the invoice form sometimes says "residents of States A, B and C, please add sales tax to the total." The mail order company has its retail or warehouse outlets in States A, B and C and is required to collect sales tax from buyers located in each of those states, regardless of the actual location your order is shipping from. [1]
Hi there. I've been working on the California section of this page and I believe the bulk of the section needs to be moved into its own article (namely Sales and use tax in California). I saw the discussion above about where to include references and I think that the use of summary style is actually the right way to go. That is, the references should go in the complete article for the state and this page should have only summaries for states with lengthy discussions. The {{ details}} template can be used to link to the detail articles consistently. Using summary style will allow this article to remain browsable while providing an easily accessible place to find more detailed information about those states that have more information (including legal references, history, etc).
I am bringing this up for discussion because I thought it would be an interesting alternative and because I am waiting for a response from the California State Board of Equalization about a couple of fact checks notices I added. I plan on making the change once I have their response and would appreciate nobody moving the California information until the BOE has had a chance to look at it (I know I should have used the "permanent link" feature). The note I sent to the BOE can be found here. Mike Dillon 01:18, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I notice that grocery/food sales tax exemptions are listed for states in which they occur, and while Ohio has no tax on food, this exemption is not mentioned in this article. Ohio has a sales tax on "service" rendered for food served in restaurants which is equivalent to what would be taxed as if there were such a tax on food, but groceries (and takeout, I believe) are exempt in Ohio. Please research this and edit the article appropriately if necessary.
hi, I think there should be a difference noted between prepared food (i.e. restaurant), and food that you buy in a grocery store, which is not taxed.-- Pueblonative 14:57, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
I've removed all references to this or that state not having income tax. It is totally irrelevant to this article. Mike Dillon 15:15, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
The 7% Sales Tax has NOT yet taken effect, Currently the Governor and the legislature are working on an exact date that the new tax will take effect. Please do not make any reversions or changes back to 7% until an official announcement and you can provide a link to that announcement. Until then the sales tax in New Jersey is still 6%. Misterrick 03:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
The sales tax in New Jersey is certainly in effect! I paid for lunch today and was charged 7% sales tax. I'll be correct this inaccurate information by that I previously made. Misterrick 18:04, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I propose the creation of a website with sales tax data down to the state, county, zip, and city level, which is FREE, and updated by the community (wikipedia style). I know there are several commercial companies out there that charge an arm and a leg, but I want to do it for free--since most of the work appears to be manual labor of rate lookups. Maybe we could even convince localities to publish their data there. Perhaps we could offer a paid version (e.g. API for automatic updates) if ads doesnt cover server fees. Just an idea.
It is customary to advertise the net price (before, excluding [sales] tax) in the US, contrary to other parts in the world, which advertise the gross price (after, including ]sales] tax). Example: A 99 cent burger is approx. 1.08$ in New York (and can therefore not be paid with a dollar bill), but a 99 cent burger in Europe is actually 99 Euro-cent.
Why?
I believe many overseas visitors might find this aspect interesting. -- Soylentyellow 23:35, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
I know some indian reservations don't have to charge a sales tax on things sold on the reservation, should this be mentioned? - 71.34.10.45 01:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm adding the local sales taxes for Duluth Minnesota, since it is one of the larger cities in MN and has an additional local sales tax. There is a 1% sales tax on taxable items, and an additional 2.25% on "served food and beverages." Feel free to complain, adjust or remove if necessary :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.102.107.60 ( talk) 17:29, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I've been told that Tourists can reclaim sales tax, but have searched the internet, but get referred to the Income Tax filing.
The wikipedia section doesn't cover this, and was wondering if there is a site or form to fill out?
-- 71.126.175.16 19:57, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Regarding Indiana sales tax on food items needs to be expanded to properly reflect the wider range of food items that are not taxed. As an example, a chocolate cake prepared by the grocer's bakery would not be a taxible item when NOT served with eating utensils. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.252.23.25 ( talk) 21:27, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Preview shows indented sub-bullets, but saving the page results in no indentation. For an example, see section on CA statewide tax. I'm using IE6, if that's pertinent.
What's with the incomplete state-by-state table? 99.225.73.152 ( talk) 19:05, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
Well hey there '152. So glad you asked. I would say that the wiki way is for you to add to the table whatever lines you wanted to see there. I just added a line for my state of Maine. What's your state these days? Bob Stein - VisiBone ( talk) 20:33, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Also the wiki way is to obsess for hours over a page one originally intended to tweak a little. I also added Florida, Massachusetts and Vermont, a surtax column, some new color coding and removed the sort button from columns for which it made no sense. Actually the added column shows tax + surtax (the maximum for the state). I thought this more useful than surtax by itself, especially for sorting. The (local) indicator means locations in some states surtax meals. Maybe a note should explain this but...
...there appear to be orphan footnotes (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7) below the table. Perhaps someone once removed the indicators to visually clean up the table? I hope I haven't "polluted" it too much. They're informative, but I thought they should either be real footnotes or stop looking like footnotes.
I think the table could use a lodging column, many states vary that tax from the general. But I can see the table is more useful for someone deciding where to live than where to visit.
I love this table, I thank whoever started it. I think the use of color is overwhelming but not unpleasant. Perhaps icons for food, meals, drugs, etc. would be better, don't feel strongly. Bob Stein - VisiBone ( talk) 22:20, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
The page works well in the context of consumers and goods. it is less clear in the context of businesses and services. ie a business incurring cost for a service is not a "reseller" as described. If they incur accountancy fees, electricity costs, etc are these subject to sales tax? Are they for consumers? These may seem silly questions to an American reader but to Euros more used to VAT they are far from clear. Crantock ( talk) 17:34, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
This paragraph:
"In addition to the local 1% sales tax added to Duluth sales, Duluth imposes an additional 2.75% tax on all food, beverage and alcohol sales at restaurants for a total of 12.25%, which distinguishes Duluth as having the highest broad-based, cumulative sales tax rate in the United States."
is inaccurate.
Duluth imposes an additional 2.75% tax on all food, beverage and alcohol sales -- The tax rate is 2.25%, not 2.75%, which is imposed on those establishments with sales exceeding $100,000.00 in an annual measuring period. The correct rate was noted previously in the article.
a total of 12.25%, which distinguishes Duluth as having the highest broad-based, cumulative sales tax rate in the United States -- The tax rate of 12.25% is the correct rate on liquor sales (1.00%+2.25%=3.25% (city) and 6.50%+2.50%=9.00% (state)) in the City of Duluth, but the tax rate is only 9.75% on food/beverage sales (1.00%+2.25%=3.25 (city) and 6.50% (state)) in the City of Duluth. This is not the highest cumulative sales tax rate in Minnesota, and therefore it is not the highest cumulative sales tax rate in the United States. In downtown Minneapolis, the tax rate on liquor can be as high as 12.65% to 15.65% (0.50% Minneapolis sales tax, 3.00% Minneapolis liquor tax, 3.00% Minneapolis entertainment tax (assessed on food and drinks sold in public places during live performances) 6.50% MN sales tax, 2.50% MN liquor tax, 0.15% Hennepin County sales tax). Based on the accuracy and limitations in the Wikipedia information, it is hard to say what tax rates might exist in places like Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., or Los Angeles, but I find it hard to believe that tax rates in Duluth or Minneapolis would exceed rates in those areas.
Also, the Wikipedia article does not account for all lodging taxes. Many Minnesota cities impose a lodging tax that is not administered, nor disclosed, by the Minnesota Department of Revenue. In the case of lodging, Duluth's highest rate is 13.00% (1.00%+2.50%+3.00%=6.50% (city) and 6.50% (state). Again, this is less than the highest lodging rate of 13.15% charged by the City of Minneapolis.
- Source - City of Duluth Treasurer's Office Tenthreeleader ( talk) 16:48, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Quoth the article:
Um, . Can someone knowledgeable please fix this? Thanks, Btyner ( talk) 00:09, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
I added a "citation needed" tag to the Maryland section to explain the statement: "Maryland added sales tax on Internet purchases and other mail items such as magazine subscriptions." There was no reference for this item as of this date.
I am puzzled about the "addition" of a tax on internet purchases. During the 17 years I worked for Maryland as a sales and use tax auditor, there was no exemption from the tax for merchandise purchased by mail order, telephone order, or other electronic means. So it's unclear to me what has changed, or whether there was even a need for a change. Perhaps the description of the change needs rewording, but without a reference I don't know what that should be. Folklore1 ( talk) 15:33, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm confused about sales tax remittance. That is, say I am in Utah, and I sell something to someone in New York, and I'm required to collect sales tax from the New York resident on behalf of the state (and city?) of New York then where do I send the money that I collected? It seems crazy that I might have to send a thousand checks to a thousand cities. It seems even more ridiculous that I would have to fill out paperwork for a thousand cities. How does this really work in practice? KellyCoinGuy ( talk) 18:15, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, I was here at the East Grand Forks Campbell Library [F] I'm confused about
May 18, 2010 I went to Loan and Pawn in Minneapolis. I bought used bike. $49.00 + $3.81 I used calculator. That is 7.77 or 7.78% I living in Grand Forks, North Dakota - 6.75% Nearest East Grand Forks, Minnesota
Ross Degenstein ( talk) 96.3.201.230 ( talk) 20:04, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
To me as a non-expert reader, these two statements seem to be contradictory:
"A sales tax is a tax at consumption..." "They can be thought of as a flat tax on producers..."
It is my understanding that the first statement is correct and the second erroneous. If sales tax were a tax on producers, then it would be paid by a producer when he sold to another business, and would be paid by a mail order business selling to an out-of-state buyer. Neither is true.
The article on VAT states that VAT and sales tax are both consumption taxes, again contradictory to the second statement above.
Mark.camp ( talk) 02:02, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
The Kansas sales tax figures are inconsistent and outdated. The table shows 8.65% as the maximum with local tax, but then mentions an 8.85% tax in Douglas county in the state-by-state breakdown. Neither of these is the highest anymore; Topeka recently added a half-percent sales tax, so the total is now 8.95%, which is not reflected on this page. I don't know where the information is supposed to come from for this page, I'll leave it for someone else to change. FlyingScientist ( talk) 08:53, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
It might've taken 8 years, but, for the most part, FlyingScientist, Kansas is updated. The only real question is regarding the "Intangibles" tax rate in the chart on the page. For most people, it's 0%, but it could be as high as 4.5% for someone in Barber County. The rate list for intangibles is located here: https://ksrevenue.org/pdf/20019.pdf. If someone could be kind enough to advise on how to proceed, that would be great. Jcb cummings ( talk) 07:22, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Well, I live in nevada, and Im 99% sure that nevada does NOT charge on groceries /non-prepared food items. the table indicates that it does. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.160.131.17 ( talk) 07:51, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
From the "Contents section" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.122.1.5 ( talk) 21:54, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I have significantly enhanced the article, adding discussions of key areas, with some citations. Additional citations would be helpful. I also downgraded the quality rating to C. The old article was little more than a list, and even with this enhancement I think it's only C class. I also increased the priority. This article gets 5k hits per day, more than almost any other tax article. It needs to be a top priority. Normally I would post a draft, but the near total absence of real meat to the article and number of hits convinced me any expansion would be an improvement. As always, comments and additional enhancements welcome. On this front, I noted, but did not change, that there is linking to place names throughout the pre-enhancement article. Oldtaxguy ( talk) 04:44, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
This article is overly long and too detailed as it is. I have removed several items of trivia relating to taxes in a specific place on a specific item. Also, I don't think we need detailed references to proposals for a VAT that have never been voted upon even at the committee level, so I removed those. Oldtaxguy ( talk) 01:32, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
To the same end, I have removed some items from Illinois section, including a full description of what neighborhoods some taxes applied to. Way too much detail. Also, I removed two (duplicate) editorializations as POV. Oldtaxguy ( talk) 03:15, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Pennsylvania has an arcane method of taxation which taxes some items which are used for human cleanliness while exempting others. For example, deodorant is non-taxable while anti-perspirant is taxable.
Not all soft drinks are taxable in PA. Soda pop is taxable, while flavored non-carbonated drinks such as Gatorade are non-taxable. Bill S. ( talk) 10:25, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
I plan to revert the table on "Metro" sales tax. It adds almost nothing to an article that is far too long and detailed as it was. Comments? Oldtaxguy ( talk) 20:23, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted the addition of a items to the policy issues section. The non-imposition of sales tax collection obligations absent nexus is an issue long settled by the US Supreme Court. The court has held (more than once) that the states cannot impose a tax or tax collection obligation on out of state persons unless the person has some connection with the state. This is not policy, it is constitutional law. Oldtaxguy ( talk) 23:45, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
The graph that was removed was re-added to the article. The material has a clear reference to a reliable source. Also, with images to see the full description and the full references you need to click on the image to get the full description page. For clarity, these references have now been placed in the description caption. Any further suggestions for improvement are appreciated. Guest2625 ( talk) 00:10, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed that this article does not contain any discussion of recent efforts to institute a online sales tax in the United States, so I've drafted a short paragraph which could be expanded as the issue continues to develop. I've tried to present a balance of arguments both for and against the sales tax. You can see my proposed paragraph below. I'd suggest adding it as a subsection under "Collection, payment and tax returns", although I'm open to other possibilities.
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Since I work at The Heritage Foundation, I feel I have a COI here, as our criticism of this effort is mentioned in the paragraph I've written. I'd rather not make the edits myself, at least not without this being checked out by other editors. I'm open to feedback, but if things look ok, could someone move this over into the article? Thanks! Thurmant ( talk) 15:16, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
References
The section for West Virginia has a cited statement saying they were the first jurisdiction to impose a sales tax, however, later on in the "History" section, there is a cited statement claiming that distinction falls to Mississippi. This apparent contradiction needs to be resolved. -- Tckma ( talk) 21:43, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
The reference mentioned no such 10% limit.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.133.94.158 ( talk • contribs)
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/info/en/?search=Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States#Rentals states that only Florida taxes rentals. That might be true on the state level, but most larger Arizona cities impose what is legally called a "privilege tax", but commonly referred to as a sales tax, on all residential rentals.
See https://www.azdor.gov/Portals/0/Brochure/ResidentialRentalMatrix-2015.pdf and http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/03/04/arizona-cities-fight-residential-rentals-bill-sales-tax/24380233/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.222.215.216 ( talk) 18:56, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Very useful conjecture from 1990.
Thanks for including it as if it is relevant to anything beyond promoting a socioeconomic agenda.
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Needs a copyedit - try to structure paragraphs out of some of the one line senteces. Mix of citation types - I'd recommend using the footnote standard on all citations. Citations should go directly after punctuation without any spaces. Morphh (talk) 04:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC) |
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So interesting yet makes me wonder why those particular states don't have to or choose to adhere to national "law" ; like what kinda deal did they make, with whom and when for this to be Mshartdreams ( talk) 06:20, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
"If merchants file and pay their sales and use tax on time, they may subtract 1/2 percent of the tax collected"
I assume -- but do not know -- that this is supposed to be 1/2 percent of the taxable sales. As written, it is 0.5% of the 6.25%.
Example: Taxable sales of $100,000. $6,250 collected. As written, the discount would be 0.5% of the $6,250 = $31.25. If it's what I think it is, it would be 0.5% of the $100,000 = $500.00.
The source given for the section is a listing of Texas tax forms (so the section is based on a primary source). I personally do not feel confident re-writing this myself. - SummerPhD v2.0 02:20, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
It's unclear whether by "Sales tax" the tax on tobacco, alcohol (spirits, beer & wine), gas, & phone service is included. In the sections on some states, it is mentioned, while in others it is not; IMHO, taxes in these areas should not be included. For example, although Oregon has no general sales tax, it does have a tax on those 4 items, but there is no mention of them in the article. (Although there is of lodging taxes, which is applied in many municipalities.) -- llywrch ( talk) 22:54, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
Based on File:State Sales Taxes.webp, it looks like the highest sales tax anywhere in the country is being charged by a locality in Illinois, but I can't find sources that say which. (As of 2021, rather than 2013 as the factoid in the intro currently has.) -- Beland ( talk) 02:06, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
There are blank cells for "Intangibles" in Guam and Puerto Rico. This color isn't explained in the legend, and I'm not sure if it means the values here are unknown, if taxes don't extend to them (in which case, shouldn't they be purple?) or something else. -- Beland ( talk) 04:15, 23 February 2024 (UTC)