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Show Jies, too, are imposing sales taxes. The most common practice is a straight rate of 2 applied on all retail sales with the same rate for "use". Utah - is .in this group. Seven states have a 3 rate California, Michigan, North Dakota, Da-kota, North Carolina, Florida, Washington, and Ohio. Indiana has varied schedules such aa for wholesale sales, five-eighths retail re-tail sales, etc. Rhode Island uses 1 rate. i $ Revenue Source Sales and use taxes have become be-come the most important source of revenues. In 1950 18.7 of all state taxes in the country was obtained from this source with collections of $1,679,000,000. California Cali-fornia alone, obtained $325,000,-000 $325,000,-000 from this source. At the present pre-sent time, 28 states with 60 of i our national population collect sales taxes. Since 1949 six states have joined the sales tax group Connecticut, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Ten-nessee, Maryland and Florida. Cit- 1 |