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What’s new in sales tax?

TaxConnex

California has the highest statewide sales tax rate, at 7.25%. The lowest non-zero state-level sales tax is in Colorado, which has a rate of 2.9%. Five states follow with 4% rates: Alabama, Georgia, Hawaii, New York and Wyoming. South Dakota cut its state sales tax rate from 4.5%

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Some States Are Considering Shelving the Grocery Tax

CPA Practice

Almost all states have seen their budget surpluses grow in the past two years, thanks to federal COVID-19 relief funds and increasing corporate tax revenues as the economy recovers from the pandemic. Grocery taxes that remain are “there for a reason. Kristi Noem has made permanently ending the grocery tax her No.

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