• kudos@lemmy.ml
      20·
      4 days ago

      It varies state by state, some like Oregon have 0% tax, but most will be around 13% 6-8% or so iirc.

      • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 days ago

        The highest state sales tax is 9.56%, most states are 6-8%. Though some major cities also have a small sales tax as well.

        • kartoffelsaft@programming.dev
          4·
          4 days ago

          I live in Washington state and I’m pretty certain the sales tax here is 10% (slightly higher than your maximum figure of 9.56%). It’s a pretty well known trick here that you can account for tax just by decimal shifting and adding (ex: 5.29$ without would be 5.29$ + 0.529$ ~= 5.81$ with tax). Is that 9.56% an “in practice” figure that accounts for rounding down? I’m curious where you read it.

            • bronzle@lemm.ee
              3·
              4 days ago

              That’s the average local + state sales tax in Washington. State sales tax is 6.5%, local varies from 1.2% - 3.85% (Seattle, for a total of 10.35%)

    • K3CAN@lemmy.radio
      17·
      4 days ago

      The US doesn’t have a national sales tax, so it depends whether the individual state imposes a tax or not.