[Kaslin]

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

[wiggen]

i have 8.875% sales tax. Our NY State tax is progressive. If we use the broad bracket of 43000-161,550 its $2093 + 6.45%. If we use 100k its 8.5%. comparable bracket for NYC taxes is $655 +3.76% over 45000.Toss in payroll and other taxes and we’re lucky they don’t ask us to work overtime to catch up on all they want to collect.