Payment of sales tax: Questions and Answers.(Brief Article)

Stone World;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The question of whether to pay sales tax or use tax is one of the most commonly...definitions of sales and use tax. Sales tax is imposed on a transfer of title...personal property and various services. Sales tax is measured by the sales price paid...

Longer sales tax embraced In January, Ozaukee supervisors will vote to...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 4, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Ozaukee County's half-cent sales tax should be extended for at least two...a report that said extending the sales tax is the only logical way to finance...time, at its January meeting, on the sales tax extension. At that meeting, it will...

SALES TAX HIKE MOTIVATES BUYERS TRY TO BEAT COMING QUARTER-CENT...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  December 28, 2001 ;     598 words ......Pondel Staff Writer With California's sales tax rising a quarter-percent on Tuesday...percent of its revenues, the state sales tax drops by 0.25 percent. That was the scenario a year ago when the state's sales tax declined 0.25 percent to the current...

Ventura suggests sales-tax overhaul; He said he'd like to see the 6.5% tax...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  November 30, 2000 ;     700+ words ......floated the idea of reducing the state sales tax to as low as 5 percent and broadening...tax against services. Minnesota's sales-tax rate now is 6.5 percent. Food, clothing...DFL-Tower, who championed a similar sales tax on services a decade ago, called...

SALES TAX: Account for it If county wants more revenue, voters need to...

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  June 4, 2004 ;     558 words ......proposal for increasing the local sales tax has merit, voters of Shawnee County...money from an existing quarter-cent sales tax has been spent so far. They also...new money raised from an increased sales tax would be spent. On Aug. 3, voters...

Sales tax plan aligns state

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Sales tax plan aligns state, U.S. standards By AVRUM...pay more under changes to the Wisconsin sales tax to be proposed this week. The changes are...other items to make it easier to collect sales tax on Internet and catalog sales. They would...

QuickBooks and your sales tax return.(The QuickBooks Advisor)

The CPA Technology Advisor;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Sales Tax is one of the most complicated areas of...program that does a very good job of handling sales tax. Admittedly, I have pretty high standards...program must be able to calculate the correct sales tax for any sales item, in any jurisdiction...

Mesa sales tax hike Q & A.

Tribune (Mesa, AZ);  April 20, 2006 ;     623 words ......Brian Powell Apr. 20--WHAT IS THE SALES TAX RATE IN MESA TODAY? The overall tax...HAPPEN IF IT DOESN'T PASS? Mesa's sales tax would decline to 1.25 percent on...THE TAX DECLINE? The quality-oflife sales tax approved by Mesa voters in 1998 raised...

Sales tax idea resurrected

The Billings Gazette;  January 17, 1997 ;     603 words ...HELENA--Gov. Marc Racicot pushed the sales tax back into Montana's political spotlight...state voters crushed his earlier sales tax attempt. "I want to make it perfectly...generated by a constitutionally capped sales tax to reduce escalating property taxes...

Flat Tax Beats National Sales Tax

Human Events;  August 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Flat Tax Beats National Sales Tax Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard...discussion is the national retail sales tax. It would be a consumption tax levied...flat tax is a better idea than the sales tax for a multiplicity of reasons. But...

FULTON RE-ENACTS 3 PERCENT SALES TAX; HOPED-FOR TRICKLE DOWN FROM ADDED...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  November 24, 2001 ;     485 words ......writer Following a year of dismal sales tax receipts, Fulton city councilors are reinstating the 3 percent city sales tax on clothing and footwear costing...March 1. Some city retailers say the sales tax break this last year has given them...

Sales-Tax Traps Snare Unsuspecting Companies

NJBIZ;  November 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ......transactions can blur the line for sales-tax regulation AS BUDGET-STRAPPEDpoliticians...out-of-state sellers to neglect to charge sales tax on purchases made over the Internet...the same amount, to be remitted if sales tax is not charged on a taxable transaction...

AURORA COUNCIL WILL DISCUSS PROPOSED SALES TAX INCREASE

Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  September 2, 1997 ;     378 words ......whether a one-half cent per dollar sales tax increase is an appropriate remedy...increase to the city-imposed Home Rule Sales Tax last month as one of two increases...gas and electricity. The proposed sales tax increase would be particularly noticeable...

The American retail sales tax: considerations on their structure,...

National Tax Journal;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Americans are familiar with the retail sales tax. Therefore, it is not surprising...asset purchases. State and local sales tax rates are relatively low, so compliance...certainly a better option than the retail sales tax for a national indirect consumption...

ELIMINATE THE SALES TAX ON FOOD

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle;  May 20, 2005 ;     483 words ...It is time to get rid of the sales tax on groceries in Wyoming. Weare currently...only a dozen states that charges sales tax on groceries. By eliminating this...failed to pass bills to eliminate the sales tax on groceries. Our state is in a financial...