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Post by vonvon13 on Jun 12, 2009 21:48:56 GMT -5
LOL! Other than the fact I don't have to pay taxes in Fla for food. I saw 4 fine men while I was shopping. ;D Three are wheelers and on is AB. It was great. LOL! I had to keep reminding myself i was there to shop for food. Not men! MMMMMM can't wait to go food shopping again. ;D
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Post by Ciao Bella on Jun 23, 2009 19:55:48 GMT -5
hey, why don't you meet up with some of the guys from FLA?
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Post by ~Z28gal~ on Aug 13, 2009 13:02:42 GMT -5
I live in FL my whole life, move to oh my god New York and THEN discover the dev thing. Epic failue on my part. What the hell!  |
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Post by Dee Dee on Aug 24, 2009 18:43:14 GMT -5
Pardon my ignorance, but are there certain kinds of food, which you can buy in Florida and which aren´t available in Alabama (where VonVon13 comes from)  Any local specialities? If someone goes shopping out of state, does it mean that it´s tax-free? |
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Post by Inigo Montoya on Aug 24, 2009 19:56:30 GMT -5
I think maybe you don't have to pay sales taxes on food in Florida? In the various states I've shopped in you pay taxes on your purchases... but each state sets its own sales tax so the amount of tax paid on your purchase varies. In Tennessee you pay a smaller tax on food than on other purchases... but I'm embarrassingly not sure how much. It's because sales tax is a regressive tax, meaning that the poor pay a larger percentage of their income in sales taxes than the rich. Reducing or eliminating the tax on food is a way to alleviate that. I'm guessing that's why you don't pay taxes on food in Florida.
And if you live close to a state line then it's probably just as easy to shop in the other state as the one you live in.
(If none of that is new info to you then I'm sorry... it's just that I know absolutely NOTHING about taxes in Denmark... )
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Post by vonvon13 on Aug 25, 2009 21:31:20 GMT -5
In the state of Fla you do not pay sale taxes on food.  I am getting married. He is hard of hearing. He lives in Fla. |
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Post by Dee Dee on Aug 26, 2009 3:38:53 GMT -5
I think maybe you don't have to pay sales taxes on food in Florida? In the various states I've shopped in you pay taxes on your purchases... but each state sets its own sales tax so the amount of tax paid on your purchase varies. In Tennessee you pay a smaller tax on food than on other purchases... but I'm embarrassingly not sure how much. It's because sales tax is a regressive tax, meaning that the poor pay a larger percentage of their income in sales taxes than the rich. Reducing or eliminating the tax on food is a way to alleviate that. I'm guessing that's why you don't pay taxes on food in Florida. And if you live close to a state line then it's probably just as easy to shop in the other state as the one you live in. (If none of that is new info to you then I'm sorry... it's just that I know absolutely NOTHING about taxes in Denmark... ) Thank you for this information, Clover; I didn´t know that. In Denmark we have the MOMS (MerOMSætningsafgift - there´s a word, I´m sure you´ve never heard before ;D). It´s the same everywhere here - 25 percent. There are often political discussions about lowering the MOMS of fruit and vegetables and raising the MOMS of sweets and soft drinks, but nothing has happened yet. |
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Post by Inigo Montoya on Aug 26, 2009 7:05:58 GMT -5
Thank you for this information, Clover; I didn´t know that. In Denmark we have the MOMS (MerOMSætningsafgift - there´s a word, I´m sure you´ve never heard before ;D). It´s the same everywhere here - 25 percent. There are often political discussions about lowering the MOMS of fruit and vegetables and raising the MOMS of sweets and soft drinks, but nothing has happened yet. You're right, I've never heard that word before. But now I'm gonna be sooo impressive in my next sales tax discussion (Did you know that in Denmark?.... MOMS... ;D) Wow. Twenty-five percent... we pay 10% in Tennessee and I think we're one of the highest in the nation. Here's a link... www.taxadmin.org/FTA/rate/sales.html ... that shows the different state's taxes. If you look Tennessee is listed at 7%, so the rest is local sales tax, I guess. Is MOMS administered federally or locally? There's been debate in years past about imposing an state income tax and reducing the sales tax. That would be in addition to the federal income tax we pay. Again, I think we're one of the few states left without a state income tax, which is what places such a burden on our sales tax. It has to fund so much. I don't know if you find this interesting or not... but how does your income tax system work? |
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Post by Dee Dee on Sept 5, 2009 18:03:22 GMT -5
Thank you for this information, Clover; I didn´t know that. In Denmark we have the MOMS (MerOMSætningsafgift - there´s a word, I´m sure you´ve never heard before ;D). It´s the same everywhere here - 25 percent. There are often political discussions about lowering the MOMS of fruit and vegetables and raising the MOMS of sweets and soft drinks, but nothing has happened yet. You're right, I've never heard that word before. But now I'm gonna be sooo impressive in my next sales tax discussion (Did you know that in Denmark?.... MOMS... ;D) Wow. Twenty-five percent... we pay 10% in Tennessee and I think we're one of the highest in the nation. Here's a link... www.taxadmin.org/FTA/rate/sales.html ... that shows the different state's taxes. If you look Tennessee is listed at 7%, so the rest is local sales tax, I guess. Is MOMS administered federally or locally? There's been debate in years past about imposing an state income tax and reducing the sales tax. That would be in addition to the federal income tax we pay. Again, I think we're one of the few states left without a state income tax, which is what places such a burden on our sales tax. It has to fund so much. I don't know if you find this interesting or not... but how does your income tax system work? Sorry, I haven´t got back to you on this one, Clover, but I had to read through several thousand pages on the Danish tax legislation - and I tell you, it isn´t complicated at all . Actually, rumour has it that there are only two persons here who understand it fully: our former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and a top-politician from the Danish Social Democratic Party, Mogens Løkketoft. When those two begin discussing tax legislation, everybody else quietly leaves the room ;D I think a link explains the whole thing better than I do: www.skat.dk/SKAT.aspx?oID=213873&vID=0Enjoy! |
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Post by Inigo Montoya on Sept 5, 2009 19:03:42 GMT -5
Holy crap! That made my head hurt. ;D (I think each one of those links led to a pamphlet?) I did find a place on that site that had a simpler explanation that I could (sorta) grasp. Thanks! It's always good to learn new stuff... before you I knew next to nothing about Denmark. Oh, and I deeply appreciate you wading through thousands of pages of tax code for me... you're the best!  |
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Post by Dee Dee on Sept 5, 2009 19:47:50 GMT -5
Holy crap! That made my head hurt. ;D (I think each one of those links led to a pamphlet?) I did find a place on that site that had a simpler explanation that I could (sorta) grasp. Thanks! It's always good to learn new stuff... before you I knew next to nothing about Denmark. Oh, and I deeply appreciate you wading through thousands of pages of tax code for me... you're the best! You´re very welcome . I´ll wade through anything for you, Clover . If there´s anything else you - or others here - would like to know about Denmark, just ask. I´m a veritable Dencyclopedia. Oh, and I´m learning something here every day - always nice to know people in other countries and get to know about the social, cultural, economic etc. conditions in other countries than one´s own.  |
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I am getting married. He is hard of hearing. He lives in Fla. 
