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You need to factor in local taxes as well. California cities top the charts for sales tax. A lot of these overall tax burden rankings miss that!

dragonwriter 4y ago
> You need to factor in local taxes as well. Sure, tax burden rankings usually aggregate state and local taxes. > California cities top the charts for sales tax. The maximum combined local sales tax rate in California is 3% (There's a 7.25% state rate, on which local district rates can be added to a maximum of 10.25%). No California cities are in the top 50 for sales tax in the US. [0] > A lot of these overall tax burden rankings miss that! It is certainly possible that some might, and its always important to check the methodology, but of those with disclosed methodology, I can't recall encountering the problem. [0] https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/highest-salestax-cities https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/highest-salestax-cities
- Acrobatic_Road 4y ago
  The maximum state+local sales tax rate in California is 10.75% not 10.25%. Wikipedia lists 68 jurisdictions in California with effective sales tax rates greater than or equal to 10%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_California#Local_jurisdictions_with_at_least_10.00%_combined_sales_tax_rates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_California#Local_j... Nationwide (as of 2021), three out of five of the cities with the highest effective sales taxes are in California. Californian cities are very much over-represented on this list. https://taxfoundation.org/sales-tax-rates-by-city-2021/#Highest https://taxfoundation.org/sales-tax-rates-by-city-2021/#High...
  - zuminator 4y ago
    I was wondering why there was a marked difference between the latter list which has 3 CA cities in the top five, and that of the parent post which excludes California from the top 50 taxed cities. And it seems that 0) the latter list only counts cities over 200K population, plus 1) the former list counts the Special Tax districts within Missouri cities as separate cities, so e.g. St. Louis city/county by itself counts as 13 entries in the Top 50 taxed "cities."

dragonwriter 4y ago

> You need to factor in local taxes as well. Sure, tax burden rankings usually aggregate state and local taxes. > California cities top the charts for sales tax. The maximum combined local sales tax rate in California is 3% (There's a 7.25% state rate, on which local district rates can be added to a maximum of 10.25%). No California cities are in the top 50 for sales tax in the US. [0] > A lot of these overall tax burden rankings miss that! It is certainly possible that some might, and its always important to check the methodology, but of those with disclosed methodology, I can't recall encountering the problem. [0] https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/highest-salestax-cities https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/highest-salestax-cities

Acrobatic_Road 4y ago
The maximum state+local sales tax rate in California is 10.75% not 10.25%. Wikipedia lists 68 jurisdictions in California with effective sales tax rates greater than or equal to 10%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_California#Local_jurisdictions_with_at_least_10.00%_combined_sales_tax_rates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_California#Local_j... Nationwide (as of 2021), three out of five of the cities with the highest effective sales taxes are in California. Californian cities are very much over-represented on this list. https://taxfoundation.org/sales-tax-rates-by-city-2021/#Highest https://taxfoundation.org/sales-tax-rates-by-city-2021/#High...
- zuminator 4y ago
  I was wondering why there was a marked difference between the latter list which has 3 CA cities in the top five, and that of the parent post which excludes California from the top 50 taxed cities. And it seems that 0) the latter list only counts cities over 200K population, plus 1) the former list counts the Special Tax districts within Missouri cities as separate cities, so e.g. St. Louis city/county by itself counts as 13 entries in the Top 50 taxed "cities."