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Get ready to reach a little deeper into your pockets come July 1, as several Southern California communities will be seeing a hike in sales tax. The increases are the result of voter and California Board of Equalization approval, explains abc7, although some local areas will actually see a drop, like Orange County's Laguna Beach, where the "city council discontinued a temporary tax increase." Here's where you'll be paying a half-percentage point more in sales tax starting next month: Los Angeles County (9.75 percent); Avalon (10.25 percent); El Monte (10.25 percent); Inglewood (10.25 percent); Pico Rivera (10.75 percent); South Gate (10.75 percent). What do you think? Are sales tax increases the way to go to help us through the economic hard times? Will this affect your spending habits?
How Deep is Your Love...for Sales Tax Increases?
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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Exactly who are we helping through these hard economic times with a sales tax increase? Not the damned consumer. Not even the businesses making the sales. I suppose we're helping the local government provide local government services that benefit all the locals. So I guess we're all being helped through these hard economic times with a sales tax increase. Maybe they should increase them a little bit more just to make certain we really get through these hard economic times.
i find it funny that the areas seeing this higher tax increase tend is predominantly culturally diverse.
i find it funny that the areas seeing this tax increase are predominantly culturally diverse and of a lower economic standard.
Of course it won't affect my spending. I'll buy things I need to buy. I can't say I'm not buying groceries for a few months because I don't want to pay sales tax.
I do find it weird that CA doesn't have a sales tax suspension week, say, the last week in August before school starts, the way many other states do.
CA needs all the money it can get, unfortunately. I'll pay the increased tax because it will help to allow me to continue to live in this beautiful state. I'd pay a lot more if it could help bring some rail transportation and keep our parks open.
i agree. if they could guarantee an increase in services -- westside subway, SF-LA high speed rail, etc. -- i'd be willing to pay even more than 9.75% on every dollar.
This particular sales tax increase was proposed to go toward exactly that, public transportation. The article failed to mention this and mistakenly suggests that it's because of the economic climate.
So this tax is merely to pay for more government services rather than alleviating the burden that other government services have placed on the government coffers? Nice.
Hey, we voted for it!
We voted for it prior to knowing we were about to be hit with a 1% tax increase.
don't count me in your "we".
fuck yeah - 34% income tax - 10% sales tax - 44 cents of every dollar I earn goes to these yahoo politicians that spend on bullshit.
why even work?
The maximum state income tax for 2009 is 9.5% (unless you earn over $1 million, then it's 10.5%). http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouthtmls/swzl_statetaxrate_CA.html
Also, you're not spending every single dollar you earn on sales tax eligible goods and services. If prop 13 hadn't decimated the property tax revenue in the state, the income and sales taxes wouldn't be as high. It's the price you pay to live in California. If you don't want to pay income tax, check out Texas or South Dakota. They don't have income tax.
Soooo I buy a six pack of beer for five dollars - I have federal and state income tax of 34%, local sales tax of about 10%, then some shit redemption value of $.60 - so i have to earn gross wages of about $8.50.
Wait till these yahoos decide a sin tax is applicable to my drinking habits to fund one some bike dork bike lane and I'll be working for $10.00 for that $5.00 sixer.
This state wasn't always this expensive and it used to be WAY better.
Fuck that.
The constant blaming of prop 13 is really getting old.
I'm all for adequate taxes (like repealing Prop 13, etc), but super high sales tax are damaging to the state. The ease at which consumers can buy items on-line (often with free shipping from Amazon), hurts in-state retailers. In turn we have less local jobs and economic activity.
It's just Measure R going into effect you dumb shits.