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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Hawaii GE Tax Bites Into 99% of Personal Income

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State and Local Sales Tax Rates Midyear 2014

From The Tax Foundation September 16, 2014 (excerpts)

...The five states with the lowest average combined rates are Alaska (1.69 percent), Hawaii (4.35 percent), Wisconsin (5.43 percent), Wyoming (5.49 percent), and Maine (5.50 percent)....

The lowest non-zero state-level sales tax is in Colorado, with a rate of 2.9 percent. Seven states follow with 4 percent: Alabama, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York, South Dakota, and Wyoming....[3]

Hawaii has the broadest sales tax in the United States, but it taxes many products multiple times and, by one estimate, ultimately taxes 99.21 percent of the state's personal income.[21] This base is far wider than the national median, where the sales tax base applies to 34.46 percent of personal income.[22]....

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