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04-22-2008, 12:34 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Alabama
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Reputation:  (10) |  Do you pay sales taxes on groceries? Do you pay sales taxes on grocery purchases? Here we pay 4% state tax on groceries, bringing sales taxes up to 10% on groceries.
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04-22-2008, 12:36 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008
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Reputation: (24) | No tax on not-prepared food in PA where I am. |
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04-22-2008, 01:08 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 510
Reputation: (33) | 6% sales tax on groceries in South Dakota. I really resent it too. I would rather pay an income tax than a food tax and property taxes that are higher than they are in Minneapolis. The state here has avoided an income tax while jacking taxes and fees on everything else to make up for it. I pay more taxes here than we did when we lived in Minneapolis and get less in return for what I pay in. |
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04-22-2008, 01:23 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2008
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Reputation: (10) | Yeah I pay for it.
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04-22-2008, 01:55 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Canada
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Reputation: (10) | I have to pay provincial tax here in Ontario, but as long as the foods don't qualify as a "good" (ie. Godiva chocolates) then they're GST-free!
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04-22-2008, 03:33 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Monterey, CA
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Reputation: (10) | I live in California now, where sales tax is around %8 I believe. I don't actually do any grocery shopping though, so I'm not really sure if it applies to food as well. |
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04-22-2008, 09:28 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 364
Reputation: (115) | No sales tax on groceries in New Jersey. Former Governer Florio got kicked out because he tried adding a toilet paper tax. |
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04-22-2008, 10:25 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008
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04-23-2008, 03:54 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Atlanta, GA
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Reputation: (41) | In Georgia we do pay sales tax on groceries and everything else. It was sort of a shock moving here from Ohio where the state did not tax necessities such as food and clothing.
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04-23-2008, 04:18 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007
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Reputation: (33) | Quote:
Our total combined tax bill in MN was less than our total combined tax bill in SD. We were renting but even if we took into consideration the average MN property taxes we still would have paid slightly more in taxes in SD. | |
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