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i’ve itemized forever. Past 35 years or so. And i have an accountant. We live in NYC so the deduction for state and local is quite large.

That makes a lot of difference. TN doesn't have a state tax, but our sales tax is quite high. 10.5 percent here in Clarksville, TN and Montgomery county, and it includes tax on food. We pay also a wheel tax that is supposed to be for the school and it doesn't matter if you have kids that go to school here or not.

I remember when that total sales tax used to be just 4 or 4.5 percent. The wheel tax of $5.00 was added in 1967 and it was supposed to be just temporary. Instead they doubled it every so many years (5 I think ) and last year one of the council members wanted to raise it to $75 which would have brought the total renewing fee to over $125.00