State Sales Tax

State Sales Tax News

  • Republican Governors, Congress Split on Online Tax Bill

    Retailers that want the Republican-led U.S. House to pass legislation letting states collect sales taxes from out-of-state sellers have some skillful lobbyists on their side: Republican governors.

  • Online Collection Gives U.S. Indians Ways to Get Revenue: Taxes

    Indian reservations are close to being put on a more equal tax footing with states.

  • Virtual Stores Should Pay Real Taxes

    Since the birth of the Internet, online retailers and consumers have guarded the tax-free click. Not having to collect state sales taxes has allowed digital stores to flourish. Shoppers have been able to find what they want in regular stores, only to order the same product online -- tax-free.

  • Colorado May Tax Pot Sales 40% as Lawmakers Design Rules

    Colorado lawmakers set out yesterday to create a framework for how the state would become the first in the nation to regulate and tax recreational marijuana sales, including combined levies as high as 40 percent on the newly legal product.

  • Tennessee Has Highest State, Local Sales Taxes

    Local and state sales taxes “add significantly” to the amount consumers pay for everyday goods, with Tuba City, Arizona, charging 13.725 percent, the most of any municipality, the Tax Foundation reported.

  • New York Restores Apparel Sales-Tax Break on Items Under $110

    Those shoes you’ve been eyeing at DSW Inc. will cost you less starting April 1 when New York state raises the sales-tax exemption to $110 for clothing and footwear purchases.

  • Brown Ready to Spend New Taxes as California Budget Mends

    California Governor Jerry Brown has a fresh $6 billion to spend from higher taxes approved by voters on his pledge to fix years of fiscal imbalance in the biggest state by population. He has promised to use restraint.

  • California Tax Increases Qualify for November Ballot

    California Governor Jerry Brown’s ballot initiative to raise income and sales taxes, and a competing measure by the daughter of Berkshire Hathaway’s Charles Munger, have qualified to go on the November ballot, according to the Secretary of State’s office.

  • Washington’s Gregoire Proposes 0.5% Sales-Tax Increase to Bridge Deficit

    Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, seeking to close a $2 billion budget deficit, asked the Legislature to let voters decide on a 0.5 percentage point increase in the state sales tax to 7 percent.

  • Online Sales Taxes Aren’t a ’Money Grab’

    The Cato Institute's Dan Mitchell has an article for U.S. News arguing against the Marketplace Fairness Act, a proposed federal law to require online retailers to collect tax on sales to buyers in states where they don't operate. Echoing Ben Boychuk of City Journal, and many other conservative critics, Mitchell describes the proposal as "a money grab."

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