Reminder: Sales Tax, Tolls Going Up
If you know the cost of your daily purchases down to the penny, you’ll want to throw a couple extras in your pocket starting Sunday. July 1 is the day that sales taxes go up around the state for various reasons. In Tacoma the increase is due to the mental health and chemical dependency sales tax passed this spring. That one-tenth of one percent won’t have much of an impact on the price of your latte and muffin, but it might make a difference in larger purchases.
Tacoma will see a slight rate increase of one-tenth of one percent to 3 percent. The tax will be used for chemical dependency or mental health treatment services.
Read more from the Tacoma Daily Index.
… and if you’re planning on heading across the Narrows Bridge, July 1 is also the day that toll rates are set to change there, so be prepared:
New Tolls
Good to Go: $4 from $2.75,
Cash tolls: $5 from $4 and
Pay-by-mail tolls: $6 from $5.50
Read more previously from Exit133 on the changes in Narrows Bridge tolls.
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3 comments
F fredo July 6, 2012
“That one-tenth of one percent won’t have much of an impact on the price of your latte and muffin”
I like the way you dismiss the impact of a sales tax by describing it in terms of a discretionary purchase. Certainly the liberal elite would think of tax impacts in terms of something frivolous like lattes and muffins.
There are lots of lower middle class and poor people in Tacoma for whom a latte and muffin might be an unaffordable luxury. People whose shopping list includes some used jeans at Goodwill on half price day and a couple rolls of toilet paper at the dollar store also have to pay an inflated price.Those are not truly discretionary purchases like lattes and muffins..J Jesse July 6, 2012
Be consistent fredo. You advocate for a minimum wage decrease/elimination but can’t handle a $20 a year increase in sales tax? Every dollar eliminated from the minimum wage is $2080 in lost income for the worker. Suddenly you’re concerned for the poor?
F fredo July 7, 2012
So the most desperate people in Tacoma who can’t find employment will lose income if the minimum wage is decreased? If they don’t have work why would changes in the minimum wage affect them? I don’t understand.
If sales taxes are lowered that benefits everybody but most notably the poor people because sales taxes are regressive in nature.
If minimum wage is decreased then some unemployed people might end up getting an entry level job and have more spending money.
There’s no inconsistancy. The poorest people benefit from lower sales taxes AND from lower minimum wages.