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by turquoisevar 983 days ago
Silly attempt at shrugging off legitimate complaints notwithstanding, at least use an average sales tax when you do.

Now it just comes across as you saying that half the country is above 5%, which would’ve been a more honest statement as it seems considering few states however around 5% combined sales tax: https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/2023-sales-tax-rate...

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The average sales tax in the US is 5.1%.
Got a source for that?

My source shows that the combined average sales tax (i.e. state, county, city and municipal) comes down to 6.57%, 6.59% if you don’t count DC.

26 of them have an average combined sales tax of 7% or more.