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Seven Blind Mice is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Ed Young. Based on the Indian fable of the blind men and an elephant , the book tells the story of seven mice who, each day, explore and describe a different part of the elephant.
Tennessee charges 7% sales tax on most items, but 4% on groceries. [188] Counties also tax up to 2.75% in increments of 0.25%. In most places, the county rate is about 2.25%, making the total tax on sales about 9.25%. If a county does not charge the maximum, its cities can charge and keep all or part of the remainder.
In the United States, every state with a sales tax law has a use tax component in that law applying to purchases from out-of-state mail order, catalog and e-commerce vendors, a category also known as "remote sales". [25] As e-commerce sales have grown in recent years, noncompliance with use tax has had a growing impact on state revenues.
Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a national sales tax introduced in 1991 at a rate of 7%, later reduced to 5%. A Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) that combines the GST and provincial sales tax, is collected in New Brunswick (15%), Newfoundland (15%), Nova Scotia (15%), Ontario (13%) and Prince Edward Island (15%), while British Columbia had a 12% HST ...
Many cities, counties, transit authorities and special purpose districts impose an additional local sales or use tax. Sales and use tax is calculated as the purchase price times the appropriate tax rate. Tax rates vary widely by jurisdiction from less than 1% to over 10%. Sales tax is collected by the seller at the time of sale.
The use tax, like the sales tax, is assessed upon the end consumer of the tangible property or service, but the difference is who calculates the tax and how it is accounted for. The sales tax is collected by the seller, who is acting as an agent of the state and thus remits the tax to the state on behalf of the end consumer.
Prior to the coming of World War I in the summer of 1914, only two countries, Mexico and the Philippines, made use of a general sales tax for national finance. [2] Excise tax — a transaction tax on the sale of specific items — was broadly used, however, and the idea of a general sales tax was neither unknown nor obscure to political decision-makers in the United States.
There is a 5% tax on lodging and 5% tax on hotel room fees. New Brunswick: HST: 10: 15 The HST was increased two points to 10% with an overall tax of 15% on July 1, 2016. [6] Newfoundland and Labrador: HST: 10 15 The HST was increased two points to 10% with an overall tax of 15% on July 1, 2016. [7] Northwest Territories: GST: 0: 5 Nova Scotia ...