- Apr 17, 2015
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Yeah....if something's purchased online/offline and there's a brick-n-mortar store in NY you get charged sales tax (unless the item is under $100 - for clothes).So if it's a regular register then we would all be getting charged NY tax?
Yes.....washington (DC) has a double digit sales tax due to it being a 'territory' of the US (along with Puerto Rico, Guam, US-Virgin Isle) and territories can't raise revenue -- so the most popular way to do this is through the sales tax. Territories budgets are decided by congress unlike states who have several ways of generating its own revenue.
This. People keep thinking that we have 'free' health care. It's accounted for in our income and sales taxes. I'm in Toronto, where the sales tax is 13%. Do double digit sales taxes even exist in anywhere in the States? If so, I'm guessing maybe California?
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