Service Tax is levied by service organisation like hotels whereas sales tax is added to the cost of goods and collected when goods are sold. Both are collected by the Govt.
Sales tax is what consumers normally pay for, or are charged for a good/ service; and excise tax is the "hidden" tax that the producers or sellers pay for. Sales tax is listed separately. Sometimes producers and sellers include the value of the excise tax within the goods or service as an " indirect tax". So that means, theoretically, sometimes consumers are being taxed twice for the price. You can find more info about sales tax and excise tax at the B.L.S. or the Federal Bureau of Labor and Stats...
A discount is money off a product, a sales tax is money added to the price of a product, and a tip is money given to someone fr good service.
Is there a sales tax on a service such as alterations on clothing? If any, what type of tax do you pay to the gov't?
Sales Tax is a tax charged on Sale of any item whereas VAT is value added tax charged on both sale & purchase.
TDS is Tax Deduction at Source which is deducted from the service holder/ consultant during payment. At present, TDS is 10.1%. Service tax is a tax payable on the service provided by the service provider, at present it is at 12.36%
Sales tax is what consumers normally pay for, or are charged for a good/ service; and excise tax is the "hidden" tax that the producers or sellers pay for. Sales tax is listed separately. Sometimes producers and sellers include the value of the excise tax within the goods or service as an " indirect tax". So that means, theoretically, sometimes consumers are being taxed twice for the price. You can find more info about sales tax and excise tax at the B.L.S. or the Federal Bureau of Labor and Stats...
A discount is money off a product, a sales tax is money added to the price of a product, and a tip is money given to someone fr good service.
Is there a sales tax on a service such as alterations on clothing? If any, what type of tax do you pay to the gov't?
is there a difference between "hotel tax" and "sales tax"? If so, what is the "hotel tax" in SC? ( Myrtle Beach)
Sorry i dont know
Sales Tax is a tax charged on Sale of any item whereas VAT is value added tax charged on both sale & purchase.
No service tax is leviable on high sea sales.
You normally do not pay sales tax on a service.
* Sales tax
TDS is Tax Deduction at Source which is deducted from the service holder/ consultant during payment. At present, TDS is 10.1%. Service tax is a tax payable on the service provided by the service provider, at present it is at 12.36%
Sales tax
yes you have to pay sales tax if you OWN the cleaning service, but if you are a customer of a cleaning service then its the responsibility of the service to pay it!