What's more fair? An national income flax tax or national sales tax?
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Well, figure it out.  If someone makes $500,000 and pays 10%\nhe has $450,000. left after taxes.  If someone makes $50,000\nand pays 10% he has $45,000. after taxes.\n\nI think a sales or value added tax is fairer. If someone making the above amounts has money to spend on non essentials he can pay tax on the purchase.  If not, he has more for rent, food, clothing, health care, etc.
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What do you propose as an alternative?  You babble on about "FAIR TAX" and yet you don't define what you think if fair.  Please explain.
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Florida has no state income tax, if that's what you're asking.\n\nThat 7% mentioned below is a state SALES TAX, not an income tax.
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Taxes are usually based on the origin of sale. If you reside in the state the seller does business in, you can pretty much be guaranteed that you will pay a sales tax.
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Everyone should pay their fair share, but no one should be forced into poverty by the government.  Whatever the percentage is, it should be enough to cover the expenses that the government incurs.  \n\nThe current policy of allowing the national debt and budget deficit to run out of control while pushing tax cut after tax cut is irresponsible and foolhardy.  If you ran your own personal finances the way the Bush administration runs our government's, you would either be bankrupt or in jail in the wink of an eye, probably both.
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sales tax is not the same as income taxes
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For Federal income taxes, the state you are in doesn't matter.  For state tax purposes, it depends on the state.  In any case, you only pay capital gains tax if you sell something at a gain.
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Are you state/local tax exempt or are you federal tax exempt?  If you're only federal exempt then you might have to pay the sales tax.  Sales tax is typically a state level or local thing.
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One of the best alternatives to all types of tax is the expenditure tax. Do away with council, income and corporate taxes and have a flat 30% expenditure tax. True, prices will increase in the short term but so will the income and hence we will have a balance. Also, this will mean that immigrants & assylum seekers will also pay the full tax and hence will not run away with using the services without pay anything.
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You have the option of claiming either your total sales taxes that you paid or your state and local income taxes that you paid. If your total sales taxes are greater than your total state and locat income taxes, claim them including the sales tax on your car.
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I'm not sure about your question--which is better?\n\nWhen you have a mortgage, early on the bulk of the payments are interest, and you can deduct that amount on  your income tax.  A good deal.
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No there should be a Fair Tax,  HR 25. If the Republicans used this in their platform, they could have won Tuesday!\n\n\nhttp://www.fairtax.org/
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The easiest income tax system would be to throw it out and implement a national sales tax.  Tax everything but food at a rate somewhere between 1 and 5 percent and people wouldn't even have to do taxes.  The only people doing taxes would be business owners and they are already doing state sales taxes, at least in the states that have sales tax.
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A sales tax is a state or locality imposed percentage tax on the selling or renting of certain property or services. The fraction of the total taxes collected as sales taxes typically varies from about 25% to 50% of government revenue. Nearly all sales taxes have a large lists of goods and services, varying from state to state, that the tax is not collected on. Because the tax is collected from the customer, it is a consumption tax. In the United States, it is nearly always explicitly added on and not included in the price, a notable exception is sales taxes on gasoline. If a person purchases property from an out-of-state seller, sales tax is not due, but rather the customer may owe a so-called use tax. For example, if a person purchases a computer from a local brick-and-mortar retail store, the store will charge the state's sales tax. However, if that person purchases a computer over the internet or from an out-of-state mail-order seller, sales tax may not apply to the sale, but the person could possibly owe a use tax on the purchase. Because of exclusions on what is taxed and not taxed the typical consumer will pay on average about 1/3 of the listed sales tax on all his/her expenditures, i.e. a 7.5% tax will collect on average about 2.5% of a persons income.[citation needed] The sales tax revenues are typically split into several fractions going to the state, schools, counties, cities, public transit and possibly other jurisdictions. The size and split of these fractions vary significantly from state to state except in the states that do not have a sales tax. Additional taxes like Hotel tax, Rental car use fee, etc. that are really disguised sales taxes are imposed typically on non voting visitors to a given location.\n\nIdeally, a sales tax (under whatever name it's called) is fair, has a high compliance rate, is difficult to avoid, is charged exactly once on any one item, is simple to calculate and simple to collect. A conventional or retail sales tax attempts to achieve this by charging the tax only on the final retail transactions, not on intermediate businesses buying raw materials for production or finished goods for resale. This prevents so-called tax "cascading" or "pyramiding," in which an item is taxed more than once as it makes its way from production to final retail sale. Sales tax collection is well established in nearly all retail establishments and typically has a high tax compliance record in the United States. Many consider the sales tax as being nearly ideal since it taxes consumption but allows savings to grow untaxed.\n\nSales taxes are considered by some as regressive, that is, low income people tend to pay a greater percentage of their income in sales tax than higher income people, because they tend to spend a higher percentage of their income on taxed items. Others consider them one of the best taxes since they only tax consumption. In many locations items such as food, or prescription drugs are exempt from sales taxes to alleviate the burden on the poor. The loss of income is made up in other tax sources.\n\nA related type of tax is the value-added tax or VAT. It is a system in which all businesses remit taxes on their sales but they are also refunded the amount of VAT remitted by their suppliers. In addition to avoiding cascading, under VAT there is no need for government to determine which sales are taxable and which are not, since all sales--retail, wholesale and intermediate--are taxed. Some or all of these taxes may be refunded but it generates a lot of paperwork (and income). The VAT paperwork can be burdensome but it remains a major source of tax income for most European Union, Mexico and other countries which charge on average a 15-25% VAT rate. Canadian sales taxes range from 0% in Alberta to an effective 10.6% in Prince Edward Island where sales tax is also applied to the federal Goods and Services Tax.\n\nMost countries in the world have sales taxes or value-adde
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No.  But you can add the sales tax to the purchase price of the item for purposes of determining the gain or loss if you ever sell the item.
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It's tax based on purchasing only. NO income tax. Jamacia has it....works good and is FAIR because everyone, rich or poor, pays only when they buy something NEW (not used because it was already taxed)\nNo property tax, no income tax, only sales tax. SIMPLE!
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you have to be more specific. The only tax that is the same for everyone is sales tax. So I cant answer your question more without more info