State's taxes smack in the middle ( of National gas and sales taxes )

Rocky Mountain News ^ | July 4, 2007 | David Milstead,

[george76]

Colorado is in the middle of the pack when it comes to taxes on gas, cigarettes and retail sales.

Tax-infomation company CCH notes that Colorado, with its 2.9 percent rate, has the lowest state sales tax of any of the 45 states that charge one. That's before local counties, cities and districts start layering on extra sales taxes, though. (Sales tax in the city of Denver is now 7.72 percent.)

Five states - Delaware, New Hampshire, Oregon, Montana and Alaska - charge no state sales tax, although some areas within the state do.

Seven states - Minnesota, Nevada, Washington, Mississippi, Tennessee, Rhode Island and New Jersey - charge state sales tax of 7 percent.

The CCH report, released Tuesday, dealt only with consumption tax and did not consider state and local income or property taxes.

[george76]

Many counties and cities add extra sales taxes too.

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[robertpaulsen]

Chicago sales tax is 9%. Downtown Chicago hotel tax is 15.4%.

[goldstategop]

That's true. And yet notice the media bias.... its never considered praiseworthy to be low tax. You MUST always ratchet them upwards. Colorado's Democrats will certainly attempt to do so in the future.

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