sales tax?

[miss_thrifty]

In Canada PEI we have 17 % sales tax, on everything except food items. (except non-food- toliet apare, cleaning products, saran wrap)
What are your taxes like where u live?

[starsapphire]

State sales tax here is 7.25%. Guess I can't complain!

[i.m.cheap]

Sales tax here is 7.3%, but we pay it on food, and even services, like hair cuts, or shipping and handling charges.

[guest32]

5% on everything except services.
Property taxes are about 1%

[babetteq]

In BC we have the GST - goods and service tax (try avoiding *that*) which just went down by a 1%=6%
Then we have the provincial sales tax = 6%

12% on everything.

It's true, PEI is more heavily taxed.... It seems wrong to me, PEI is a poorer province than BC - higher unemployment etc..., you'd think the taxation would be less heavy. Don't seem fair really.

-Babs

[pkellyc]

6% sales tax here but we also pay a state tax every year.

[Katybird]

Our sales tax here is 8.25%. I am not sure what our property taxes are in percentages but I do know that they are among the highest in the state of Texas .

[jzkitten]

We have no sales tax here. It was a big change for me as I was use to paying 8.75% in TN.

[miss_thrifty]

Babs, tell that to the Goverment, every province i find ahve there own problems, our goverment stinks, they can steal, lose money and not pay back. Guess who pays the differnece. The only thing thatsnturned out good this yaer was we got more doctors, finally!! we were so short chained for years, and now we need the Goverment to do the same for the nurses, we are losing too many to early retirement or leaving all together.

[miss_thrifty]

I have half sister In N.C. and she says that state can claim there car,. I wish we could do that here.

[babetteq]

Miss Thrifty I know the medical community is really short on the east coast... I mean, everywhere there is a nursing shortage, and doctors too are being drained. My ex was a nurse and we looked at moving to newfoundland, but they paid so much less that we just wouldn't have been able to work there adn still deal with our debt....

On the otherhand.... one of the reasons that we have caps on the payscale is the same reason that if I have no work, no job and no money, I can still get the same medical care as my parents for instance. It's not a great system, but I woudn't want to do without it. I *do* think that if you get your degree inmedicine in Canada (school is subsidized) then you should put in some years here to 'pay back' the education that you got.... a lot of nurses are leaving canada upon graduating for the states.... it makes me a bit mad really..... those are my tax dollars......

[Telephus44]

Sales tax in the state of Massachusetts is 5% (easy to figure out in your head!) over everything execept food (dining out is subject to sales tax, but not groceries) and clothing. Lots of people drive up from RI or CT for back-to-school clothes shopping because of it!

[Persimmon Lace]

9% and I don't mind paying it. 1% of all the sales taxes collected in our city go to fire and police, they get paid so little for what they do. We are in the process of coming up with a sales tax to help out our community hospital. 1% is through now so we could vote to keep it the same way and help keep our hospital from being sold, which would be awful in my view. I would rather pay it for the hospital than have it go to companies who recieve a tax break and at the end of the time for the break they try to blackmail the city into continueing. Plus out city decided we needed a market square, whatever, so that tax is almost done too.

[miss_thrifty]

BABETTEQ
I thought in Canada that everyone had ther student lons and u have to pay that back. Whats school is subsidized? Does that mean paid in full or partial. Kindegarden in PEI is paid in full, but everyone still fundraises for extra . I may not love the slowness of Health care but i do love that we are all treated equally except for the cabinet members who gets in right away and private sectors. But thats Goverment!!!

[babetteq]

Yes you do have student loans etc.... but you're still paying a subsidized amount ... otherwise your student loans would be higher and there would be more administrative costs. k-12 is mostly subsidized with parents having to pay for feild trips, most school supplies etc... but everything else is paid for by tax payers.

the Gov't???? they seem to have their own rules!!!!

babs