how much is your local sales tax?

[DedHed]

ours just went up to 9%

it sucks!:(

dennis

[jgarris11]

8.75%

[Clyde]

would be helpful where your 9 percent is at ?

yoru location is bare

6.5 percent here in Minnesota. or is it 7 percent now ?

[Ayres]

15% here in Nova Scotia, Canada

-Ayres

[DedHed]

you know,

i thought i had my location up there, it's central AL

dennis

[ChrisIsBored]

7.85% here in San Antonio, Tx.

[Baalz]

hmm 5% here still.. WOOOHOOOO!!

Oops.. Maryland

[JRegs]

7% in the city, 6% in the suburbs or an hour drive to Delaware for 0%. Made sense when I bought the computer and TV.

[signu459]

Way to much no matter where you live!!!!!!:blown:

5% here in Indiana, go to Chicago and you will pay 10%

[slk3599]

5.1% here in SE Wisconsin
The .1% is for the new Miller Park that 5 counties are paying for.

[ERRN7]

Well in the Commonwealth of VA.....4.5% sales tax. Inaddition to income state tax. I live close to TN as well and do some shopping there because of selection.....8%.

[DukeDog]

6% here in FL.
Jeff

[becka]

Depends on where you go in the state. In Little Rock... 7% 30 minutes north almost 8%. plus you pay property tax and an hour south of Little Rock in Hot Springs you pay sales tax, plus a city tax PLUS a county tax. On everything!!!

[simonh]

Here in the UK our equivalent to sales tax - VAT (Value Added Tax) is charged at 17.5%

[fishman]

In Pennsylvania where I am it's 6%, but there is no sales tax on food or clothes.

[hesaias]

6% in my home town, 5% elsewhere in good ole S.C.

[signu459]

Boy Simonh that is robery. And what a VALUE you are getting.

[Deacon]

6% here. 5 of those percentage points are state tax the other 1 point is a "local option" tax. (no sales tax on groceries).

[Wolverine]

I think it's 6.5% here, but it might be 6.7%, so it looks like we're near the better end of the spectrum.

Dave

[salty toes]

0% on any clothing itme less then 110.00 and 8.25 on everything else here in NY.

[simonh]

Our Value Add Tax :) doesn't apply to food and childrens clothes.
I seem to remember that VAT in one of the other European countries (possible France) is 22%.

Largely VAT has increased as a sly way of taxing people more rather than increasing income tax (which is already high enough anyway!).

Now where does that £100 I earnt today go:

9% National insurance + employers NI contributions (around another 10% IIRC)
23% Income Tax (well if you manage to earn less than around 50k US$ otherwise 40%)

then another 17.5% tax when I go out and spend

[signu459]

let me see if I have this coorect- if you make less than 50K US you're taxed 49.5% if you make more than 50K Us you're taxed 66.5%. WOW!!!

Just curious- does the government wear protection when they rape you like that?

[simonh]

If you earn over 50k then they will tax you at 40% on your salary over that amount but you don't have to pay National Insurance contributions on that income. Ermmm.... well not until the current government decide to scrap that limit :D

A full list covering the rest of our taxes including those on interest on savings, pensions, inheritance, buying properies, capital gains can be found here - http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/rates/index.htm :D

[hartman]

Please what are all you complaining about :)

At least you can rest assured that your hard earned money is being well spent by your respective governments.

Look at some of the great way to use your money

1) The US Housing and Urban Development over that last 10 years has spent 1 Billion dollars to stop drugs in housing projects. Status, well drugs are at the small level as before and maybe higher only problem is HUD does not keep any stats. They did spend 800K on gems and incense plus aroma therapy oil treatments to help the poor people increase their health and self worth.

2) The US Air Force has asked to stop being forced to buy even more C5 galaxies that they don't need or want, but the congress under pressure from the maker forced them to keep buying.

3) The state of Illinois I believe under pressure from Jessie Jackson to get more minorities on Kid Care health insurance project got a 700K award to sign up people for the project. During the year the contract ran Rainbow Push and other organization under his leadership sign up a whopping 157 people or $4,400.00 per head. Funny thing is all the other advocacy groups that normal do it only charge the state $50.00 - $75.00 per person.

4) In Denver they build a new Multi-Billion dollar airport 30 Miles away from the city. As usual they ran late and over budget and the auto-baggage handler was better at killing the bag over moving them and required a 150 million dollar over haul just to get it working. Then after opening months if not a tear late, all the vendors went out of business cause they had inventory on hold for that time. Then it gets even better, NO ones like the airport cause it is 30 min drive from where everyone wants to be, so they go to the old over crowded airport.

5) The EPA currently cannot account for over 5 Billion dollars in their budgets. When asked why they have not preformed external audits as required by law over the last ten years they say "Sorry we need 150 Million dollar to upgrade our computer systems before we can find that 5 Billion" They do have on their books a FORD explorer SUV (street valve 35K max) listed as a 98 million asset, and a table top microscope worth about a $1000.00 at 11 million. But I guess when you collect 2.2 Trillion a year what is a few billion between friends.

And then there is the KING daddy of them all
THE BOSTON BIG DIG

Started in 1982 and estimated to cost only 2 Billion dollars and take 7 years. Well you guessed it 20 years later and still 3 more to and at current estimate of AT LEAST 14.5 BILLION.

Then There is even the BIGGER BIG DADDY the U.S. Federal budget for the next 10 year

27.5 Trillion dollars that buys a lot of B-Ionic 2 part dosing bottles

Currently their are only 7 countries in the world that have a bigger GDP than our government spends, just think about that for a second. The TOTAL output of almost all the countries in the world is less than what our government spends.


Well I sleep better knowing my 36% Federal, 5.5 State income tax. My 5% sales tax, My gas tax, My yearly sales tax on my car I bought once but get to pay every year. My Social Security tax (which I will never see), My capital gains tax of on stock sale of at least 20% and as high as 39%, My 40% tax on bonus, the many other hidden taxes are being put to good use.

Hartman,
:) wakes up screaming every night :)

[Kat]

Disgustingly enough, here in BC we pay a 14% tax, 7% GST (Federal Goods & Services Tax), 7% PST (Provincial Sales Tax).

That on top of a weak dollar. It's sad when you have to pay tax for food, and even sadder when it directly influences the quality and quantity of your nourishment. Sometimes I wonder how the truly impoverished ever get by in this country.

[Kahuna Tuna]

Hartman brings up a brilliant point. If the jaded American public were ever to wake up and figure out exactly how little of their earnings they actually got to keep there would be such an outcry in this country. Instead we moan and whine that the bank charges us $1.50 to use our ATM card. Wake up people! Oh yea, 9% here on the beautiful left coast.

[Doug1]

Hmmmmmmmm property taxes can be annoying but NO SALES TAX. I think its $35 to register the cars for 2 yrs regardless of model year and worth. Drivers license went up to 20 something for 4 to 8 yrs. Oh ya the prop taxes on my 2 bdrm house on 13.5 acres have doubled in the last 10 yrs, now a little over $400 a year. course my good paying job wouldnt cover tips in NY or SF:(

[hartman]

In Tax-assachusetts you get the privilege of paying sales tax every year on our car. When the wife and I bought a new car we paid over $1,800.00 sale tax and that same year we got an $850.00 excise tax and this year it will be about $800.00.

Hartman

[gas4544]

8.65% here in King County (Seattle area), but we have no state income tax. But the state nails you every other way it can. I think our gas taxes are some of the highest in the country.

Is it any wonder so many of us order goods from internet retailers and get by without paying sales taxes? I wonder how long it will be before the states find a way to tax those purshases?

[Kahuna Tuna]

Funny you should mention that Gas, the senate was just debating that topic the other day. I for one was unaware that if you purchase goods through the internet or a catalog from out of state you will still get charged sales tax(provided your home state has sales tax) if the company you bought from has an outlet in your home state. I cant find the link but the committee decided to keep things the way they are at least until 2006, when the subject will be revisited. This was done over the objections of small business groups, who claim non taxable internet sales are causing local customers to shop elsewhere, also state govts. were complaining about the loss of revenue when state sales taxes were lost because of people shopping out of state.

Hartman- on this yearly car tax, are you still charged a yearly registration fee? Out here on the left coast we get charged luxury taxes on certain items like boats, I own a 10 foot inflatable with a 6 HP outboard and I pay as much "luxury" tax as the guy with a 50 foot yacht, ridiculous.

[hartman]

Kahuna Tuna,

We pay about $45 for 2 years on the registration fee for a generic plate. If you want a vanity plate is it $75 very year. Plus they now upgraded the states yearly inspection from $15 to $45.

Hartman

[Flatlander]

Its estimated a middle income bracket Canadian, pays 54% of their yearly income in taxes. Thats all taxes included.:eek1: :eek1: :eek1: :eek1: