The government use taxes to pay their bills.
These figures are effective January 1-March 1, 2009. They are courtesy of the Department of Revenue. Use the below link for the most up-to-date sales tax rates. .025% city + .065% state = .090% total tax rate
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6.25%
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This should help, just go to this website and it will explain the No Sales Tax Holiday. It always starts @ 12:01a.m. on the first Friday of August and runs until the following Sunday. Just go to this website and it will explain the No Tax Holiday. http://dor.mo.gov/tax/business/sales/taxholiday/school/
Sales Tax is imposed by State and Local government. Sales tax provides around 11 percent of state tax revenue (on average).
Sales Tax is imposed by State and Local government. Sales tax provides around 11 percent of state tax revenue (on average).
Alaska does not have a state sales tax or personal income tax. However, some local government bodies in Alaska do impose a sales tax.
Each state has their own law for sales tax. Most states do not charge sales tax to government or nonprofit entities. A nonprofit must obtain a sales tax certificate stating that they are exempt from sales tax.
Sales tax is the levy added to purchases made by the government. Suffolk County, New York sales tax is 8.63%.
Sales tax
If you are at a store in Missouri and buy something it is Missouri tax. If you buy it on the internet and it is shipped you are charged neither of the "states'" tax. It is basically not taxed since the federal government doesn't have sales tax at this time.
Only that which a government imposes.
Sales tax
The sales tax on gasoline is a fuel tax, which is labeled as a user tax. The taxes collected from gasoline purchases are remitted to the state government.
they didnt have money to run the government
Sales tax is collected to make your State and Local government work. Different projects are able to work because of it, like road improvement, bridges, even your local youth organizations.