sales tax
noun
: a tax levied on the sale of goods and services that is usually calculated as a percentage of the purchase price and collected by the seller
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For calendar year 2023, Clarendon Hills had total sales tax revenues of $1,235,448, meaning that its grocery tax revenue was about $370,600.
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Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
Elk Grove relies heavily on sales tax revenues — the city’s largest individual revenue source.
—Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 14 Feb. 2025
Georgia Senate Republicans advanced a bill Wednesday that would create a sales tax holiday for guns and ammunition.
—Kristal Dixon, Axios, 13 Feb. 2025
Illinois has one of the highest property-tax rates in the country, and residents of Chicago, thirty miles up the lakeshore, pay a sales tax of more than ten per cent.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
Elk Grove relies heavily on sales tax revenues — the city’s largest individual revenue source.
—Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 14 Feb. 2025
Georgia Senate Republicans advanced a bill Wednesday that would create a sales tax holiday for guns and ammunition.
—Kristal Dixon, Axios, 13 Feb. 2025
Illinois has one of the highest property-tax rates in the country, and residents of Chicago, thirty miles up the lakeshore, pay a sales tax of more than ten per cent.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Sales tax.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sales%20tax. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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