Sales Tax

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Homefire

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Do you pay sales tax on your home heating fuel?

Pellets, Coal, Oil , Propane. Natural Gas?

My home county charges a 4% tax on home heating fuel but the
next county over doesn't tax heating fuel.

Is your heating fuel taxed?
 
Does buying gift cards for the people that own the property where I cut wood count? Seriously, I don't buy oil anymore, but our propane, other than the federal stuff, isn't taxed as far as I know. Last year I spent $45 on LP gas.

My coal was never taxed, either bulk or bagged. I don't think PA taxes things like that.
 
In Maine, Pellets are not taxed. Heating oil is only taxed for business use.

Propane is an entirely different story. If used for cooking (stove), no tax. If used in a gas grill, taxed. If used in an RV, taxed. If used as motor vehicle fuel, no sales tax, but subject to motor fuel taxes. If used as heat, no tax (unless a business.)

Talk about confusing...
 
I'm pretty sure NY taxes anything that is visable... The only reason that invisable things aren't taxed is they can't figure out how to tax it.

Matt
 
Dylan,

It was different for the longest time, now its the same, but that is wholly coincidential. Check this out, found it on the net... just for the people who think that sales tax existed "forever" :

1965: Long Islanders Begin Paying Sales Tax

On August 1, 1965, Long Islanders and other New York State residents began paying a 2% sales tax on retail purchases other than food, prescription drugs, and non-prescription drugs. The tax resulted from a bill the New York State Legislature had passed on April 14. While business owners in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties complained about the tax, they reported being surprised by how accepting shoppers were, although many were confused about what was taxable and what wasn’t. In 1971, the New York State sales tax increased to 4 º%. Subsequent tax increases have raised both Nassau and Suffolk Counties’ sales taxes to the 8.75% that is in effect today. In 2004, sales tax revenue broke $1 billion in Suffolk County for the first time in history. In Nassau County, the sales tax collected in 2004 was estimated at $940 million.

-- Mike
 
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