Study island: It is a regressive tax.
Citizens of a country are charged certain levies indirectly, commonly known as indirect taxes. These are the taxes payable on an activity or a commodity. Some common examples of indirect taxes are sales tax and excise tax.
Sales tax is an example of an indirect tax. This is taxes that a consumer pays to someone else and then that other person pays the taxes to the government.
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Yes, you can claim state and local sales taxes on your return. But in order to do so you must itemize deductions and you must not claim state and local income taxes. You're allowed to claim either state and local income taxes or state and local sales taxes, but not both.If you do claim the sales tax deduction, you can either claim the amount you actually paid (based on receipts) or the amount given to you by the IRS's Sales Tax Deduction Calculator.For a more detailed explanation of the state and local sales tax deduction, please see Deducting State Sales Tax.
It would depend on your state law. But in most places, counties collect sales taxes in addition to state sales taxes.
The state sales tax rate in Tennessee is 7.000%. With local taxes, the total sales tax rate is between 8.500% and 9.750%. Food in Tennessee is taxed at 5.000% (plus any local taxes).
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I know of no state that has absolutely no taxes. The closest is Alaska which has no personal income tax or statewide sales tax, although some municipalities have sales taxes.Perhaps you were thinking of just one particular type of tax?
Citizens of a country are charged certain levies indirectly, commonly known as indirect taxes. These are the taxes payable on an activity or a commodity. Some common examples of indirect taxes are sales tax and excise tax.
Please mention the types here that you want to know are not a tax. There are many types of taxes such as property tax, income tax, sales tax and road tax.
Sales tax is an example of an indirect tax. This is taxes that a consumer pays to someone else and then that other person pays the taxes to the government.
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The United States has a progressive tax method. This means that the more your earn to more tax percentage of your income you pay. This is a dangerous type of taxation in that we are approaching a time when almost 50% of the population pay no income taxes at all.
There is a federal excise tax and a state sales tax.
The state sales tax rate in Arizona is 5.600%. With local taxes, the total sales tax rate is between 5.850% and 10.900%.
Income Tax, Sales Tax (VAT), Wealth Tax
All States, in fact all governments, have taxes of one type or another...it is how they are funded. If they don't have one type, say a sales tax, they make it up with another being higher...say property tax.