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At 7.25%, California has the highest minimum statewide sales tax rate in the United States, [8] which can total up to 10.75% with local sales taxes included. [9]Sales and use taxes in California (state and local) are collected by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, whereas income and franchise taxes are collected by the Franchise Tax Board.
A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services. ... In Los Angeles it is 9.5%, which is 7.25% state & 2.25% county.
The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce supported it. Having donated $900,000, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) was the "largest single donor to the effort to raise the sales tax in the county and build more mass transit". According to LACMA surveys, the top three reasons people do not ...
(The Center Square) - The City of Los Angeles’s “mansion tax” on all property over $5.15 million has led to an over 70% decrease in affected sales, resulting in significant foregone property ...
A measure on the November ballot that would double the county's quarter-cent homeless sales tax is leading in an early poll of L.A. County voters but not with enough support yet to pass.
Sales tax rates have also increased from 6% (pre-Proposition 13 level) to 7.25% and higher in some local jurisdictions. [58] In 1991, the Supreme Court of California ruled in Rider v. County of San Diego that a San Diego County sales tax to fund jail and courthouse construction was unconstitutional. The court ruled that because the tax money ...
The highest sales tax in Washington is on liquor. The spirits sales tax is 20.5% of the value of the product purchased [216] and a $3.7708 per liter spirits liter tax is assessed on spirits sold to consumers. [217] 1 April 2008 saw tax increases in King County (+.001), Kittitas County (+.003), Mason County (+.001), and the city of Union Gap ...
Eli Lipmen, the executive director of transit advocacy group Move L.A., said that voters have supported sales tax measures in the past, making Los Angeles “less dependent on who’s in Congress ...