Monday, July 16, 2007

Taxes

I just got done sifting through a stack of receipts from our vacation, as well as double-checking our credit card statements online to make sure there aren't any strange charges on it. So far, so good :-)

And I've got a couple of questions for my non-California-dwelling friends:

I came across one of the receipts from a store in Canada, and noticed entries for 2 types of taxes: GST and PST. What are they, and what do the letters stand for?

Speaking of taxes-- no sales tax in Oregon sounds nice. But surely the state makes up for lack of revenue from this stream, through other sources? So what are the state income and property taxes like there?

(originally posted at:  http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/288343027)

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