Re:Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety
by Amezarak on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:56PM
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That's higher than in all US states. The highest US state sales tax is 7.25%. The highest municipal+state sales tax is 12.8%.
That's a huge outlier, though. The average is 5%, and many states exempt huge swaths of goods (such as groceries) and some have no sales tax at all.
Re:Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety
by kogepathic on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:56AM
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> and many states exempt huge swaths of goods (such as groceries) and some have no sales tax at all.
Groceries are exempt from GST/PST or HST in Canada as well.
I'll grant that's higher than in some US states, but come over to Europe where VAT is usually 19-25%. Although at least in Europe prices are advertised including VAT, so no mental math is required to calculate how much it will end up costing.