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It's hard to escape paying sales taxes, with 45 states levying a statewide retail sales tax.
However, despite the potential for raising revenue, states with a higher combination of state and local sales taxes may find consumers looking elsewhere to shop.
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 worst state has a combined rate of 9.563%. Scroll through to see which it is, and which states make up the rest of the worst 20 states for going shopping.
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