Good, these are the real taxes to cut. Instead of the ones on private airplanes.
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Y'all have an extra tax on groceries? TF?
In Canada, a whole host of categories including basic groceries are HST (sales tax) exempt. For the curious, there's a list on this website
Different rules per state. For example Massachusetts taxes prepared meals and a few other things but not “food”. There was a graphic a couple days ago posted to Lemmy, showing like 5 or 10 who tax food, a minority, including several who were trying to fix that. I guess Tennessee is one of those
Same in NYC
As someone who lives in New York City, I am very surprised to hear that anybody anywhere pays sales tax on groceries.
There’s also no income tax, and relatively low property tax.
Not saying that’s a good thing, as it shifts the tax burden too much onto the poor, but it’s worth noting.
Useful context. Thank you
To be more specific, since I don’t know what property taxes are in New York, I have a house assessed at $280k and pay about $600/year each for city and county. If I were outside city limits, it’d only be county.
That’s significantly lower than NYC area which is already considered fairly priced compared to many surrounding areas.
My house is assessed at $650k (that’s nothing in NYC) and I pay around $5400 a year in property taxes.
How do you define "groceries"?
In Minnesota, where I live, there's no tax on raw ingredients and essential food items. That means things like fruits, vegetables, grains, pasta, bread etc.
There is, however, a tax on non-essential food items. This is things like candy, soda, prepared food etc.
The specifics of the law are here.
NY State is similar.
Big deal. Save four percent only for tRump to apply a 50% tax on top of it. Oh, for you MAGAts, tax and tariff are the same thing except the tariff is going to the EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE which tRump conveniently oversees. How do you think he made $400,000,000 in six months? YOU GAVE IT TO HIM every time you purchased something.
Remember, no income tax in TN
Errr. Why am I paying more tax on groceries here then?
I was confused because I never lived in a state that charged tax on groceries till now, but why would this say 4.. what's the rest from
Edit: so it's strange.. Gallon of milk from Kroger 2.99, adds 20 cents sales tax. That's 7%. So an extra 3% from local sales tax.
That means that even if they drop this 4% TN local taxes might still be on groceries. So the lowest according to this chart would be 2% on food, and highest 2.75%.
I was surprised when I moved there. Taxes on groceries add up to a lot.
I just keep throwing random places out there to my partner to see what she says. Told her I found this really cute place to stay in Costa Rica yesterday, haha
Costa Rica is definitely on our list.
Check out this balcony, the place looks so damn cute and has a killer view. https://www.realtor.com/international/cr/house-for-rent-in-grecia-just-5-minutes-from-the-center-furnished-grecia-alajuela-province-310100707801/
Walk out your bedroom door to this for cheaper than I pay now, and when I looked at jobs I started seeing multiple remote jobs to support U.S. companies that were from pay rates equivalent to here haha
Niiiice.
Personally I'd like to see no sales taxes (at any level of government) on anything intended to be ingested, injected, or otherwise absorbed by a body (not limited to human!) - in other words food and medicine, including for pets, in any of the states that have sales taxes.
(I'd be ok with an exception (left taxable) for recreational drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol, but that's debatable too.)