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In my current location (Ithaca NY) sales tax is 8.25%, in Saratoga Springs it is 7.25%. My experience in other places suggests that ~8% is normal. |
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Dracolisk
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Location: Australia ..... G\'day!
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Sales tax down under is 10%
Thats after I get taxed 48.5% of my wage and an extra 1.5 % on top of that for the National free medicare scheme (total 50%) And then there is all the other charges like road taxes for every veichle you have and such. And all this does not cover our local council taxes ![]() Read it and weep you undertaxed Americans ![]()
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%5 sales tax here in Massachusetts. Some stupid taxes I especially depise, like yearly excise tax on cars in some towns. I dunno property tax, but my income tax has always seemed fairly comparable the 1/2 dozen other states I have worked in. The Federal gets the most of my tax dough.
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Here in TX, we have no state income tax; the sales tax is .089%, and the property taxes for my county went up for the third year out of 5 living here.
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We have our council rates, road tax's, GST, GST on our toll roads, GST on everything. High income tax. If there isn't a tax on it its because the government hasn't worked out a way to tax it yet.
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here income tax is around 36%, imminent taxcut will bring it down around 30%.
The Sales Tax is 24% on most products but 14% on things like milk, vegetables and other foodstuff, books and magazines. |
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when people drive down the government paid road that needs repairs, past the school that could do with more teachers, listening to a war on the radio news and thinking we need to have a stronger defence force, while on the way to see there relation in a run down hospital, to take them what few good books they could find from the public libary, they often think. "Why do I pay so much tax and why can't I pay less?"
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I don't mind paying taxes (really), BUT only if I can trust they're going to something worthy. Healthcare and especially education. Teachers are about the most underappreciated people I know of. Last thing I really want is a bunch of ignorant, sick people running around in the states. Hey wait a minute....
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