11 Facts About Sales tax

Sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services.

Conventional or retail sales tax is levied on the sale of a good to its final end-user and is charged every time that item is sold retail.

The state Sales tax is "imposed upon all retailers" for the "privilege of selling tangible personal property at retail".

Use Sales tax is levied upon the "storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property".

Effects of higher sales tax were not shown immediately in sales, but about six months after the taxes were raised.

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An attempt to require a Delaware e-commerce vendor to collect North Dakota Sales tax was overturned by the court in the 1992 decision on Quill Corp.

Effect that a sales tax has on consumer and producer behavior is rather large.

Sales tax amounts, measured in drachmas at a rate of one percent, were recorded in a separate column of a record prepared for the auction of 16 slaves in Piraeus, Greece in 415 BC.

The Roman sales tax was later reduced to a half percent by Tiberius, then abolished completely by Caligula.

However, the new Sales tax is selective rather than general, applying only to a specific service.

Every province in Canada except Alberta has either a Provincial Sales Tax or the Harmonized Sales Tax, which is a single, blended combination of the GST and PST.