State Sales Tax Rates

[douglas9]

http://www.fairtaxation.org/facts/sales_tax_rank.php

[Silent3]

1. I love our 0% NH sales tax, BUT...

...we also have a "rooms and meals tax" which recently went up from 8% to 9%, which I suppose is designed to tax tourists the most, but of course gets a lot of in-state people who eat out a lot too.

My property taxes are almost $9000/year. The state and local governments definitely find a way to get out money even without a general sales tax.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. $9000?!?!?

Where do you live? On an estate?

Mine are $2000 a year for an average sized 3 bedroom ranch in an inner ring suburb.

[Silent3]

4. I've looked at a list of property tax rates in NH, and it varies wildly...

...from town to town. I live in a somewhat expensive house, but it's far from being an estate, and it's on a postage-stamp sized lot. The big problem is that property taxes in my town are $17.55 per $1000 of assessed property value per year. The assessment is definitely higher than what I could actually sell this place for.

On the plus side, I live less than 6 miles from where I work. I'm willing to trade higher taxes for not having to be one of those people who spends two hours or more a day every day trapped in bad traffic.

I have a friend who lives in another NH town where the rates are even higher than where I live. He pays nearly as much property tax as I do for house that's maybe worth 2/3 to 3/4 of mine.

[aikoaiko]

6. ITs true that property taxes are generally high in NH, but a lot the money is under local control

and when I was living there (Gilmanton Iron Works, Durham, Dover)I was mightily impressed with the active participation of local in local politics.

But you're right, you pay one way or the other.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Massachusetts is 6.25%

[crazyjoe]

5. many of the higher sales tax states have no income tax.

I live in taxachusetts and would trade with Tennessee in a second.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Taxachusetts has other bad things.

They vote for the Democrat Party (recent events notwithstanding), and are full of pro-abortion militant atheists. And welfare queens. In Cadillacs. Besides, it's an anti-Justice state -- capital punishment is banned! The horror!

Not like the wholesome Real America that is Tennessee.

[Bill McBlueState]

8. what about taxes in Massachusetts is so onerous?

I lived there for seven years and didn't find the taxes to be a burden.

[slackmaster]

10. Working Californians have high sales taxes and high income taxes

The pain of which is partly offset by reasonable property taxes.

[EstimatedProphet]

12. Really? I live in "Taxachusetts" too

I just moved here. You can have Tennessee - I've been there.

[igfoth]

9. I have Lived in States with Tax and No Tax

and bottom line is you will pay one way or another.

Sure it is nice now not paying a sales tax and no state income tax, I live in NH now, used to live in MD were I paid state, local, property and sales tax that currently equals what I pay in property tax in NH.

I have also lived in NY, CT, RI, MA, FL, VA and each and every place I have lived, they find a way to make you pay no matter what you want to call it.

[Winterblues]

11. Don't mean to brag, but I will anyway..

My state has no income tax nor Sales tax and in fact gives money to every resident each year from interest earned on our Money Fund...Every person in our state took money and established a Huge Bank Account and every year the state distributes the interest earned from that account to every resident..Other States could do the same but they don't.. Not my fault...