How much do you pay in sales tax?

I'm curious as to how much this varies from place to place. Please also mention your country and state/province if you don't mind.

This is not meant to turn into any sort of debate about politics or taxation or anything like that. Let's keep it light.

I'll start off. I live in Ontario, Canada, and we pay 13% HST on purchases, with some exemptions (staple foods, diapers, etc). HST stands for harmonized sales tax which combined the previous 8% PST (provincial sales tax) and 5% GST (goods and services tax, goes to the federal government).


Edit: Thought of something else to add! Is your sales tax added to the price tag of the item you're purchasing, or is it included in the ticket price?

 

Deutschland, Bavaria - I think we're about 19% in value added taxes. No idea what that means tbh, I'm not a numbers person or into the political games and agendas. But that's what google says. =p

Personally I just pay what the price says. =]

 

No sales tax here in the granite state :cheers2:



Hotwater

 

I think around 7%

I forgot to mention as of a couple of years ago we don't pay tax on food except at restaurants

 

So when you go to the store, you are charged an extra 19% on top of the retailer's price? Crazy.

 

PA(us)-well, some things like food (not restaurant food, grocery food) is 6% sales tax here. (Oddly enough I'm thinking diapers are taxed, but I'm not really sure...hmmm?).

I like to do a lot of my bigger goods shopping in DE bc sales tax is 0% there. (However their property taxes make up for it.)

 

8 percent.

 

I pay same as OP obviously because we're practically neighbours


what really peeves me is that we have to pay the hst on used cars...thats ridiculous to charge tax on private sales..tax should be paid by first owner and then that's it..not over and over and over again everytime it gets a new owner.

 

That does seem a bit crazy.. I don't know actually. Just what the price tag says + tips at restaurants, cabs etc. perhaps they already include the tax on the price tag?

 

8.25%

 

4% state sales tax plus city sales tax (8.875) so it could be up to 12.875%!

many small businesses dont actually ring up sales tax, they still take that out when they do the paper for their business i guess

 

P.A is 6% tax

 

philly and allegheny county are 7% .. the rest the state is 6%..

 

6.75%. just went up from 6.5% last year. i'm pretty sure it varies by county here, but they're all pretty close to that.

certain food items are untaxed though.

 

if your sales taxes are low chances are you are paying more than others in other taxes...

sales tax low? property tax higher ect ect ect..

if your country is based a debt based system takes are always high...

 

damn, 13% is pretty high

it's 8.875% total in NYC.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/business/nys_sales_tax.shtml

i just learned it varies by county. it's 8% sales tax in my county in NY state. it's not on food though, except junk food.

 

Currently our local sales tax is 7% (State of Ohio is 5.75%, local county adds on 1.25%) Some counties in Ohio have sales tax as high as 8.75.

 

17.5% in England for most items.

Or 0% on purchases as a business. Then 17.5% on most sales again.

PS the worst ones are fuel and alcohol taxes.

 

From wiki:

Netherlands: For the value added tax there are two categories: foods and essentials, and non-foods and luxuries. These two categories have rates of 6% and 21%, respectively. The non-foods and luxuries percentage was increased from 19% to 21% on October 1st 2012.