Taxes!

Hey guys. I heard you have lower taxese in the US?? State taxes? Well we have 15% tax here (in Canada), how much tax do you pay on everyhting???

just curious because someone said that they bought something for 90$ and only paid like $7 tax....


i figured 80% or higher of you are in the US so ti would be a good place to ask

shaun89 said:

Hey guys. I heard you have lower taxese in the US?? State taxes? Well we have 15% ax here, how much tax do you pay on everyhting???

just curious and figured 80% or higher of you are in the US.

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Yeah, things are usually higher in Canada aren't they?

I remember I was in Toronto this passing winter.

San Diego sales tax.. around 7.75% while federal is around 25-33% or so. Im not sure what I pay for California State Tax

Let's just say we pay to much taxes.

25-33% ? wow. but 7.75 isnt bad.....

Sales tax by me is 5.5%
no sales tax on clothing in minni (and maybe other shiz), no sales tax on food in wisc. (that could be everywhere though...)

Ok I looked it up:

Federal: 20-35%
California State: 1-9.3%
California Sales: 6% + local taxes which in San Diego totals 7.75%

So we're paying a decent amount of taxes, but many things are cheaper here due to those taxes and we pay quite a bit less for car fuel compared to Europe plus overrall I think we pay less taxes.. it's still definitely high though!

Illinois:
Sales (differ by town)
merchandise: 7.25%
food/drug/medical: 1.25%
vehicle: 6.75%
State: about 3%

I payed zero state taxes. Yeah!...granted I almost no income due to the fact that I didn't work and am paying an arm and a leg for school

Here in Cleveland sales tax is 8%

New York sales tax is 8.5%

Each county in Florida has there own sales tax rate. Mine is 6.5%.

Yeah it works like that in Ohio also. Where I am in Cleveland it's 8%. Where I work it's only 6.75% so I buy more there

Jefe3223 said:

Illinois:
Sales (differ by town)
merchandise: 7.25%
food/drug/medical: 1.25%
vehicle: 6.75%
State: about 3%

I payed zero state taxes. Yeah!...granted I almost no income due to the fact that I didn't work and am paying an arm and a leg for school

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Wow. Your very lucky.... And everyone pays less tax than me ! But we have free health care. I think our taxes go towards that ...

shaun89 said:

Wow. Your very lucky.... And everyone pays less tax than me ! But we have free health care. I think our taxes go towards that ...

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eh, yeah. I'm luckily in the sense that I avoided paying taxes, my out of state tuition for school is another thing to be discussed. Hahaha, I'm a little cynical about it, but yeah. My area has some pretty high taxes over all...that is, compared to some places where guys on my floor are from.

Jefe3223 said:

eh, yeah. I'm luckily in the sense that I avoided paying taxes, my out of state tuition for school is another thing to be discussed. Hahaha, I'm a little cynical about it, but yeah. My area has some pretty high taxes over all...that is, compared to some places where guys on my floor are from.

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Don't even get me started on college tuition...#4 or #5 highest tuition in the country...and it went up 4.5% for next semester for me

made me feel a bit better... (lol).

our tax is like
tax8.5% on everything

In Germany it's 16% on everything except "essentials" which include print-media, food and other similar things...not macs though

1 Liter of regular unleaded petrol = €1,15 (Including all tax)

But University is currently free... (Though that'll change soon too!)

Jefe3223 said:

eh, yeah. I'm luckily in the sense that I avoided paying taxes, my out of state tuition for school is another thing to be discussed. Hahaha, I'm a little cynical about it, but yeah. My area has some pretty high taxes over all...that is, compared to some places where guys on my floor are from.

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yeah when you have free health care, the health care quality goes down for the max. but the minimum quality health care goes up.

In america the worst health care is pretty shotty, but the best is pretty **** good.
-----------------worst|------------------|best--------- canadian spectrum
worst|--------------------------------------------------|best american spectrum

In the UK we are Taxed at 17.5% on practically everything. The air is currently free, although I can see that our government might change that yet !

Unlike Germany, Macs are taxed at 17.5%, as is fuel