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Arizona Votes Today on Sales Tax Increase

1 min readBy: Joseph Bishop-Henchman

Arizona voters go to the polls today to decide Proposition 100, which will raise the state’s sales tax by one percentage point for three years.

Arizona’s combined 7.92% sales tax is the 9th highest now, and if the rate goes up a point, it will become the 3rd highest. That’d be behind only Tennessee, which has no wage taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities., and California, not a state to emulate for fiscal policy.

And although is true that Arizona is a relatively low-tax state, they are middle-of-the-road on business tax climate.

Click on the image for larger size version of the “State Business Tax Climate Index” map. Click here for the map in printer-friendly or alternative formats (PDF, TIFF).

More on sales taxes here.

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Joseph Bishop-Henchman

Joseph Bishop-Henchman

Executive Vice President

Joe Bishop-Henchman is Executive Vice President at the Tax Foundation, where he analyzes state tax trends, constitutional issues, and tax law developments. Joe has testified or presented to officials in 36 states, testified before Congress six times, and has written over 75 major studies on tax policy.