On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:09:34 GMT, Scott
wrote:

In article .net,
"In His Footsteps" wrote:

here in the States, if you go to a Supermarket to buy
food you are not charged tax on Food.

But if you buy it in a restaurant you are charged tax
on Food.

Again, it depends upon where you are. There are no state or local
sales
taxes in Delaware, for example--on food other anything else. Other
states charge tax on certain items purchased from supermarkets--
sometimes on those items defined as "non-essential goods," which
often
leads to grotesquely complicated lists of taxable and nontaxable
foods.

See here
http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/sales.html
for a breakdown on which states tax food.

Scott, that page is incorrect. We are indeed taxed on prescription
drugs. I recently had a broken leg and watched the tax calculated on
every single little thing. We in Hawaii actually have a progressive
tax. It is nuts and nasty. Ah- but it is paradise if you look out the
window
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