On 7/16/2015 3:25 PM, Oren wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:12:35 -0400, "Percival P. Cassidy"
wrote:

Amazon collects Sales Tax only for certain states -- presumably the ones
where they have facilities. I've never paid Sales Tax on Amazon orders,
and there's an option on the state Income Tax form to have Sales/Use Tax
computed as a percentage of income. Even if Amazon did charge Sales/Use
Tax *and* shipping, most things would still be cheaper than buying locally.

Perce

There is no state income tax in Nevada. Amazon has a warehouse ~15
miles locally. NOW Amazon collects the state sales tax for the state.

...
The Nevada state sales tax rate is 6.85%, and the average NV sales tax
after local surtaxes is 7.94%.

Groceries and prescription drugs are exempt from the Nevada sales tax
Counties and cities can charge an additional local sales tax of up to
1.25%, for a maximum possible combined sales tax of 8.1%
Nevada has 249 special sales tax jurisdictions with local sales taxes
in addition to the state sales tax
Nevada has a lower state sales tax than 75% of states

http://www.tax-rates.org/nevada/sales-tax

Veterans can get exemption for taxes at the DMV in my county.


Delaware does have a transfer fee on cars of about 3.5%. It's not
considered a tax as is a similar house transfer fee of about 2% and you
cannot itemize on a tax return.