Major items exempt from the tax include food (not ready-to-eat); candy and gum; most clothing; textbooks; computer services; pharmaceutical drugs; sales for resale; and residential heating fuels such as oil, electricity, gas, coal and firewood. The Pennsylvania sales tax rate is 6 percent.
Pennsylvania does not tax its residents’ retirement income. It is one of only two states, and the only state on the East Coast, that considers pension income completely tax exempt. The Keystone State also has the lowest flat tax rate in the country at just 3.07 percent.
In Georgia you don’t just go down and pay $50 per year for your license tag. They call it an ad valorum tax and the license plate costs a percentage of the value of your vehicle. I have a 2006 Honda CRV and last year they still charged me close to $100. Its the most hated tax in the state.