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Re:Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety by Amezarak on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:56PM (#14546967)
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.

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Re:Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety by kogepathic on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:56AM (#14551090)
> 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.

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