Sales tax

A total of 37 states provide full exemptions from sales and use taxes on manufacturing equipment and machinery, but for the rest of the states, the rules can be different.

The average rate for sales taxes across the U.S. increased a bit in the second quarter of the year, according to a new report.

Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting said Monday the Internal Revenue Service has selected it for the 12th year in a row to provide sales tax rate and taxability tables for taxpayers.

Back-to-school time in Massachusetts isn’t just celebrated by stir-crazy parents. It’s also a chance to shop sales tax free—or at least it was, until the state decided not to reinstate its sales-tax holiday this August for the first time since 2009 due to slowing state revenue.

Massachusetts decided this year to cancel its sales tax holiday, and in the years ahead other states may decide to follow suit.

Many of the highest average state and local sales tax rates are found in the Southeast, according to a midyear report from the Tax Foundation.

On June 23, the UK population narrowly voted to end its 43-year membership in the European Union.

Sharing of information on business taxes by state tax authorities could improve business tax compliance, according to a new study.

California was the only state to change its sales tax rate in the first quarter of the year, spurring a host of changes in local sales taxes across the state, according to a new report.

Every state or municipal government will eventually face the question of whether to raise taxes. Since the era of George H.W. Bush, officials answer increasingly "No."