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Consumers will go to great lengths to pay lower sales taxes, often choosing to leave high-tax states and local neighborhoods to buy in low-tax areas, particularly for expensive major items.
States that offer the best combination of state and local sales tax rates may gain in the amount of retail traffic, but lose out in terms of generating sales tax revenue.
The states in this ranking were rated by combining the statewide sales tax rate and the average local sales tax rate to produce a combined sales tax rate.
The four states at the top of the list have no sales taxes at all. Scroll through to see which they are, and which states make up the rest of the best 20 states for going shopping.
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