State Sales Taxes
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Sales taxes in the United States are a
tax added onto the price of goods or
services that are purchased in the
United States. A sales tax is a tax on
consumption, which is displayed as a
percentage of the sale price. Sales
taxes are assessed by every state except
Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire
and Oregon. Hawaii has a similar tax
although it is charged to businesses
instead of consumers. In some cases,
sales taxes are also assessed at the
county or municipal level.
The sales tax is the responsibility of
the merchant to collect and remand to
the state, and stated separately (or
implicitly added at the time of sale) to
consumers. Usually only consumers are
charged the tax; resellers are exempt if
they do not make use of the goods. In
some jurisdictions, a reseller's
certificate is required to make use of
this privilege. This is in contrast to a
Value Added Tax (VAT), where resellers
are also taxed (resellers may then claim
the VAT paid on their purchases from the
applicable authority). States which have
exemptions for specific types of
organizations (such as schools), may
also require a certificate. A sales tax
audit is the examination of a company’s
financial documents by the state’s tax
agency to verify if they have collected
the correct amount of sales tax from
their customers.
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