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In Utah, groceries are subject to a 3% sales tax, which is a combination of a reduced 1.75% state sales tax and local taxes of 1.25%. Alcohol and many prepared foods are taxed at the full 4.85% ...
Beginning July 1, Illinois began suspending its 1% grocery tax for the next year to help residents keep more money in their pockets as prices continue to rise nationwide. Illinois is only one of 13...
While the tax amounts to only $1.50 on a $150 grocery bill, it adds up to significant amounts to provide services, about $600,000 in the case of Barrington, Mayor Karen Darch said.
The Wake County Board of Commissioners levied a Prepared Food and Beverage Tax of 1% of the sale price of prepared food and beverages effective January 1, 1993, bringing the total to 8.25%. [165] There is a 40.5¢ tax per gallon on gas, [166] a 45¢ tax per pack of cigarettes, a 79¢ tax per gallon on wine, and a 53¢ tax per gallon on beer ...
Nearly all jurisdictions provide numerous categories of goods and services that are exempt from sales tax, or taxed at a reduced rate. Purchase of goods for further manufacture or for resale is uniformly exempt from sales tax. Most jurisdictions exempt food sold in grocery stores, prescription medications, and many agricultural supplies.
For example, sales tax in Chicago (Cook County), IL is 10.25%, consisting of 6.25% state, 1.25% city, 1.75% county and 1% regional transportation authority. Chicago also has the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority tax on food and beverage of 1% (which means eating out is taxed at 11.25%). [15]
Illinois will end a statewide grocery tax while giving cities the option of replacing it with a local tax or doing without the revenue. Some call ending Illinois' grocery tax a 'sham.' Others say ...
Florida – no individual income tax [10] but has a 5.5% corporate income tax. [11] The state once had a tax on "intangible personal property" held on the first day of the year (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, money market funds, etc.), but it was abolished at the start of 2007. [12] Nevada – no individual or corporate income tax.