STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

wicked · Coach

What is the sales tax in your state?

ico · Dooney & Bourke

NYS has 8.25%. And clothes ARE taxed!
If I recall correctly, NYC has 8.625%!!!

TheLovelyLady71 · Hermes

Well - in Texas it's 8.25%, and only food isn't taxed. LOL

Andrea Julia · Coach

NJ is 6%, but clothing isn't taxed. I live on the border of NY and always feel guilty when I buy something there I could have bought here because they have tax!

JoceyBaby23 · Gucci

PA is 6%. Food and clothes are not taxed.

lynnie · Chanel

md is 5%, everything is taxed minus necessary food items (milk, bread, etc.) NYC is 8.375% (I think), 4.375% on clothes and accessories. I have never had tax free clothes- luckies!!

highheels · BCBG

Delaware 0%!!!!

Metric · Gucci

7% and only necessities (ie food stuff) are not taxed. But we have the lowest tax in our country, most other province's are closer to 12-14%.

gypsyfreak · Coach

7.75 % in CA

lsubatgirl · Gucci

8.25% in Houston, Tx

9.4% in Baton Rouge, LA last I recall. It just keeps getting higher there :(

Sandy · Kate Spade

7% in RI... food and clothes aren't taxed.

Maddie · Coach

Seattle has an 8.6% sales tax and food isn't taxed. We don't have an income tax though. I have no idea what Maine's is.

erin · Chanel

it varies in pennsylvania. i don't know which counties are 6% and which are 7%. we pay 7% where we live. (clothing and food is not taxed, except for deli items!)

CarrieS · Marc Jacobs

Here, it varies by city. I think the overall state is 5%, but some cities have an optional tax added on to that. The city I'm in has total tax at 7% (2% being optional )

Most grocery items aren't taxed, only deli stuff and anything that someone has to prepare

-- Edited by CarrieS at 14:13, 2005-10-31

Lilykind · Hermes

8.25% in Los Angeles, CA. On all taxable goods...including clothes! Imagine the clothes I could've bought with that sales tax!

When I was growing up, state tax in Rockland County, NY was 7.25% (it may be 7.75% now...but I don't know)...since we're right on the NJ border, we'd go to Paramus to buy clothes since they don't have sales tax there. Good times...

Andrea Julia · Coach

Maddie wrote:

Seattle has an 8.6% sales tax and food isn't taxed. We don't have an income tax though. I have no idea what Maine's is.

What??? No way! So you get to keep all the money you make at work? Maybe I should reconsider my list of states where I would relocate to include Washington.

luckylily · Gucci

Andrea Julia wrote:

Maddie wrote: Seattle has an 8.6% sales tax and food isn't taxed. We don't have an income tax though. I have no idea what Maine's is. What??? No way! So you get to keep all the money you make at work? Maybe I should reconsider my list of states where I would relocate to include Washington.

Maddie meant that we don't pay income tax to the state in WA. We do pay federal income tax.

theotherjess · Chanel

Ours varies by county too. I think ours is 7 or 7.5% for clothes (and everything else but neccessary food). It used to be 6.5% but they bumped it up.

HeatherLynn · Gucci

9% in AR on everything

8.25% in OK on everything

Andrea Julia · Coach

luckylily wrote:

Andrea Julia wrote: Maddie wrote: Seattle has an 8.6% sales tax and food isn't taxed. We don't have an income tax though. I have no idea what Maine's is. What??? No way! So you get to keep all the money you make at work? Maybe I should reconsider my list of states where I would relocate to include Washington. Maddie meant that we don't pay income tax to the state in WA. We do pay federal income tax.

Okay. That is slightly less cool.