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by StavrosK 5634 days ago
Do you pay national income tax or something? I find it hard to believe that you get to keep 100% of the money you make.
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Yes, you can't avoid federal taxes. You just don't have an additional ~10% on top of that from the state.
Besides federal income tax (as noted by another commenter), there's local sales tax, state property tax, and who knows what-all else. Income tax is sometimes one piece of a state's tax system, but it's never the only piece.