Yeah but people who live there full time, will they be better off? Its going to stifle purchases as well.
That’s what most of my property tax is. Screw this idea.
Time to steal.
California’s sales tax is way more than 7.25 % because each county and city can jack it up further. It’s 10.25% in Alameda County.
So if you live just inside the Idaho border, you’ve got it made.
“Everything on this looks good, sounds good, but I just have this niggling feeling that it may not be as good as it all looks,” said Republican Rep. Linda Hartgen.
where is the discussion on reduced spending?
“The move will bump Idaho’s sales tax from 6% to 7.85%, the highest in the nation..”
Pfft...Chicago is 10.25%. Pikers.
Sales tax is HIGHER in and around New York City. It's just that some of it is State Sales Tax and some is County Sales Tax. So, e.g. Nassau County where I grew up is 8.625%, which is probably more than the profit on whatever item is being sold. (It was ZERO until August 1, 1965, and somehow we had everything that the folks who live in my house get now.) The NYC boroughs are all 8.875%.
ML/NJ
Whenever govt engages in a gimmick like this — we will eliminate one tax but raise another, the net benefit is to government.
The working class and poor will be ravaged.
I like that there are no escapees from the tax burden.
I’m at 7.5% where I live (Escambia County, Florida). This is not that much higher, with much in the way of property tax being eliminated as well.
Buy a home on the Wyoming border and do your shopping there at 5% sales tax.
Or better yet...buy a home on the Montana border and pay no sales tax at all!
A little late. Most Idahoans have already been taxed off the beautiful north Idaho lakes, and been replaced by Californicators.
So how much do the locals add to the sales tax in Idaho. And what amount will this make the actual sales tax paid?
I would think that would be a good thing for a real journalist to add to an article like this.
I would make that swap any day of the week...
All these “nicies” are being funded by the homeowner.
City busses, parks and schools are all funded by the homeowner.
Spread the responsibility around so everyone pays into it.
It will also be very difficult to raise the tax if everyone is paying attention to it.
we have no state income tax here in Washington state but we have a very high sales tax and huge property tax....we’ll loose our house not to sickness nor death, but to taxes..
Start buying Commercially zoned land in Ontario Oregon if this passes.
Ontario Oregon is less than an hour away from Boise Idaho.
Oregon has no sales tax.
Start building strip malls and structures to lease first grocery stores etc.
The grocery tax is one item I dislike in Idaho. Food wasn't taxed in CA, but sometimes the prices were equal or higher in CA vs ID due to operational costs.
My large purchases tend to be firearms, so I would see some impact there. Getting extra revenue from out of state travelers is a May to September burst of activity. I'm not sure the extra sales tax is going to be revenue neutral.