Fellow Americans, what’s your sales tax rate- please note your location?

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1. 6%, Baltimore County, Maryland

2. Everywhere USA, it’s too damn high

3. 8% Horry County, SC

4. 7.75, San Diego

5. 6.625 in new jersey.

   0 tax when purchasing essentials like groceries and clothing.

6. 0% NH.

7. None in Delaware!

8. 7.75 % Rocklin CA, most grocery items are exempt

9. It’s generally around 7% around central Florida. No sales tax on most groceries though, there are restrictions. Something sold as a single serving or pre made meals will be taxed. Soda and candy also get taxed

10. Combined city and county sales tax my burb of Chicago, Cook County, IL Sales tax is 10.75%

11. 6%, but there are reasonable exclusions like clothing, medicine, college textbooks, heating fuel, and non-prepared food.

12. 6 percent. Except food. Michigan

13. 9.375%, San José, CA

14. 8.9% in Atlanta, 8% in DeKalb

15. 8.05% Scottsdale Arizona

16. 5.5% Dane County, Wisconsin

17. In my parent’s part of Alabama. 10% on practically everything, ***including groceries***.

    In Atlanta, 8.5%, with an exemption of the state wide sales (4%) for groceries (and a few other critical goods such as prescription medicines, iirc)

18. 10.2% Everett, WA (there’s some amount of state mixed in there but that’s the total rate)

19. This is easily found online:
    https://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/local-sales-taxes

20. Between state and county, 8% for me here in my part of Georgia. I think we just voted in another SPLOST, bringing it to 9% soon (special purpose local option sales tax).

    Edit: groceries are taxed at a reduced rate of 3%.

21. 8.25, in California. [Tax rates](https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/rates.aspx) in California range from a low of 7.25, to a high of 10.5.

    Highest tax rate in the entire country is in a county in Alabama, where the base tax rate is 4%, but local surtaxes bring it up to [13.5%](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States#By_jurisdiction)

22. 10.25% in Seattle. No income tax. Property tax is through the roof. Most regressive tax system in the US. Low income people don’t stand a chance. Blue state my ass.

23. None. No sales tax in Oregon

24. Maine is 5.5%

    Several folks in my area hop the border to NH where it is 0% if they are making big purchases. People in MA do it as well.

    MA even has a tax holiday weekend in August where you don’t pay sales tax. It is set at that time for buying school supplies. It keeps money in the state and gives people a bit of a discount.

25. 6% in PA

26. 7% statewide in Indiana.

27. 8.75% Joliet, IL. Now, grocery sales tax is different, it is currently 0% statewide with no local sales tax on grocery. And then there is a different sales tax for gas, which is $0.392 per gallon of gasoline statewide, diesel and aviation fuel are different. Then there is a separate tax rate for tobacco products and since I don’t smoke I don’t care what it is.

28. 0%, Oregon

29. 10.25%

30. They range from 4.25% to 8%, depending on which city limits the store is in or if they are in an unincorporated area. Denver metro area.

31. 7.525% in the suburbs of Minneapolis. 6.875% state sales tax and 0.65% county tax. Also there are no sales taxes on essentials in Minnesota, so things like clothes, medicine, and food will ring up at exactly the price on the shelf. There are exemptions within clothes, like furs and things that aren’t technically clothes like jewelry or sporting goods, but everything else is tax-free.

32. Connecticut:

    6.35% on most things

    7.35% at restaurants

33. 7% statewide, 2% additional for Food and Beverage purchases (IE going out to eat) in Marion County and most of the surrounding counties. Indiana doesn’t tax grocery items, but what counts as a grocery item is sometimes arbitrary

34. 7%

35. 6% in West Virginia, but food is exempt. Cities and incorporated towns are allowed to levy an additional 1% within municipal limits if they desire.

36. 10.25% – Chicago

37. 8.25% in my Central Valley city.

38. Texas. 8.25%

39. 6% in Maryland.

40. I live in southeastern Tennessee. State and county sales tax combined is around 9%.

41. Almost 10%, but no income tax here in Tennessee.

42. MA has a 6.25% sales tax. For meals, there is a local option 0.75% tax that obviously varies from town to town. The room occupancy tax is only 5.7% (which I hadn’t known), again with a local option tax. Grocery food is exempt, but non-food groceries aren’t. I’m not sure about salad bars and similar in groceries. Clothing has a $175 *per item* exemption (making it cheaper to buy suit separates than a suit).

    NH actually has a higher meals tax, which, along with the clothing exemption, is why the MA side of the border with Nashua, NH has mostly clothing stores, restaurants, and a movie complex.

43. 10.25% Pasadena

44. NH — no sales, no income! Ask me about my property tax, though