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  2. Goods and Services Tax (India) - Wikipedia

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    Goods and services are divided into 5 different tax slabs for collection of tax: 0%, 5%, 12%, 18% and 28%. However, petroleum products, alcoholic beverages, and electricity are not taxed under GST and instead are taxed separately by the individual state governments, as per the previous tax system.

  3. Value-added tax - Wikipedia

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    Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a national sales tax introduced in 1991 at a rate of 7%, later reduced to 5%. A Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) that combines the GST and provincial sales tax, is collected in New Brunswick (15%), Newfoundland (15%), Nova Scotia (15%), Ontario (13%) and Prince Edward Island (15%), while British Columbia had a 12% HST ...

  4. Taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Politics portal. v. t. e. The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property, sales, capital gains, dividends, imports, estates and gifts, as well as various fees. In 2020, taxes collected by federal, state, and local governments amounted ...

  5. Taxation in India - Wikipedia

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    Goods and services are divided into five different tax slabs for collection of tax - 0%, 5%, 12%, 18% and 28%. However, petroleum products, alcoholic drinks, and electricity are not taxed under GST and instead are taxed separately by the individual state governments, as per the previous tax system.

  6. History of taxation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    James Gilray: The Friend of the People; & his Petty New Tax Gatherer paying John Bull a visit (1806). The history of taxation in the United Kingdom includes the history of all collections by governments under law, in money or in kind, including collections by monarchs and lesser feudal lords, levied on persons or property subject to the government, with the primary purpose of raising revenue.

  7. Value-added taxation in India - Wikipedia

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    Value-added tax (VAT) was introduced into the Indian taxation system from 1 April 2005. The existing general sales tax laws were replaced with the Value Added Tax Act (2005) and associated VAT rules. A few states ( Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh) opted to stay out of VAT ...

  8. Goods and services tax (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    Goods and Services Tax [1] ( GST) in Australia is a value added tax of 10% on most goods and services sales, with some exemptions (such as for certain food, healthcare and housing items [2]) and concessions (including qualifying long term accommodation which is taxed at an effective rate of 5.5% [3] ). GST is levied on most transactions in the ...

  9. Sales taxes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Currently, the majority of Utah's aggregate sales taxes are in the range of 6.1 – 8.35%. Utah has a 16.350% sales tax on rental cars in Salt Lake City. [192] The sales tax on food and food ingredients is 3.0% statewide. This includes the state rate of 1.75%, local option rate of 1.0% and county option rate of 0.25%.