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There is no sales tax on food items, but prepared meals purchased in a restaurant are subject to a meal tax of 6.25% (in some towns voters chose to add a local 0.75% tax, raising the meal tax to 7%, with that incremental revenue coming back to the town). Sales tax on liquor was repealed in a 2010 referendum vote.
The Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) is an interstate instrumentality located in the United States. [1] It is the executive agency charged with administering the Multistate Tax Compact (1967). [ 2 ] As of 2021, the District of Columbia and all 50 states except for Nevada are members in some capacity.
When Colorado voters passed the law that legalized marijuana, the voters approved using tax money generated from marijuana sales for schools, police, and drug education. As of April 2015, projections for marijuana tax revenue for Colorado were at $58 million, but it was unclear at that time whether the additional revenue would have to be ...
In January 2011, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue released its third annual report detailing the impact of the state's film tax incentive program, specifically focusing on the productions and tax credits of 2009. [15] The report's key findings for 2009 showed: 86 productions generated $82.4 million in state tax credits.
The Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 would authorize each member state under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (the multi-state agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002) to require all sellers not qualifying for a small-seller exception (applicable to sellers with annual gross ...
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. Use tax is self assessed by a buyer who has not paid sales tax on a taxable purchase. Unlike value added tax, sales tax is imposed only once, at the retail level, on any particular goods. Nearly all jurisdictions ...
Wholesale sales tax, a tax on sales of wholesale of tangible personal property when in a form packaged and labeled ready for shipment or delivery to final users and consumers; Retail sales tax, a tax on sales of retail of tangible personal property to final consumers and industrial users [3] Gross receipts taxes, levied on all sales of a ...
In reaching this decision, the Court looked to the seminal case setting forth the tax code's definition of gross income, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Glenshaw Glass Co. , [ 5 ] in which the Supreme Court held that a taxpayer has gross income when he has "an accession to wealth, clearly realized, and over which the taxpayers have complete ...