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The California excise tax on gasoline as of mid-2011 is 35.7 cents per gallon for motor fuel plus a 2.25% sales and use tax, 13 cents per gallon for diesel plus a 9.12% sales and use tax. [37] The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration provides an online list of sales taxes in the local communities of the state. [9]
The California State Board of Equalization generally requires that online sales be taxed according to a seller's location. Companies can consolidate all of their online sales into a single location, giving its local jurisdiction the benefit of all online sales taxes collected by the company statewide. [2]
The Bradley-Burns law was introduced as a response to the proliferation of local sales and use tax ordinances enacted by California cities and counties between the 1940s and 1950s. This explosion of diverse tax regulations created compliance difficulties for both taxpayers and tax administrators.
Californians pay the highest marginal state income tax rate in the country — 13.3%, according to Tax Foundation data. But California has a graduated tax rate, which means your rate increases ...
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Collecting Sales Taxes Over the Internet Archived 2008-01-15 at the Wayback Machine Explains the current rules for collecting sales tax on Internet sales. Taxing the Internet: Analyzing the States’ Plan to Derive Online Sales Revenue Archived 2010-08-21 at the Wayback Machine Legal article discussing state attempts to derive online sales revenue.
California has the highest base sales tax rate, 7.25%. Including county and city sales taxes, the highest total sales tax as of September 1, 2013, was in Arab, Alabama, 13.50%. [2] Sales tax is calculated by multiplying the purchase price by the applicable tax rate. The seller collects it at the time of the sale.