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1 Kail Padgitt, Updated State and Local Option Sales Tax 1 (2009)

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October 2009
No. 196

Updated State and Local Option Sales Tax
By Kail Padgitt
Introduction
Sales taxes are paradoxically transparent and non-transparent. A taxpayer can easily see how high the
tax is by looking at the receipt for any purchase. It's hard to imagine a more transparent tax.

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Kail Padgitt, Ph.D, is a staff economist at the Tax Foundation.

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