My overall feeling is that we don't pay a lot of sales tax. It's a tax that is easy to avoid with lifestyle choices.
SO, I am putting my feelings to the test. I don't know if I will have the patience to track this all year, or if it will get too tedious.
This is what I got so far:
Our sales tax just went up to 8% on 1/1.
I was pleased to see that our grocery bill was literally $0 sales tax. That is about what I expected - but seems like this or that or the other is always taxed. Obviously this was an all-food run.
(I think at Target dh also picked up some tape. I just lump most the household type spending with "groceries.").
This is all good, since grocery spending is the bulk of our retail spending.
We will see how the year progresses...
Sales Tax Tracking
January 11th, 2013 at 02:51 am
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Unfortunately, I don't know if we will ever get one....I don't think the elected officials could be trusted to say property taxes would be lowered if a sales tax was voted in. That seems to be the opinion of most people I know..lower property taxes and we will vote in a sales tax.
I always forget when we are travelling out of state, I have to pay more than what the price tag says...lol
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