Impact of sales taxes

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Sales taxes can be applied to tangible goods like food (in some states),  clothing, cars, furniture, household items, and other goods. By comparison, the  sales tax does not generally apply to landscaping services, attorney fees,  private school tuition, stocks and bonds, real estate investments, and other  purchases more typically made by higher-income families.

A seller has to  charge sales tax if it has 'nexus' where it is located. Nexus, or physical  presence, is established if a business maintains a temporary or permanent  presence of people (employees, service people or independent sales/service  agents) or property (inventory, offices, warehouses) in a given locality. There  is no over-arching definition of nexus, so each taxing locality may define it  differently - and many do, leading to endless problems for businesses which have  operations in multiple states.

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