August 16, 2018
In 2015, a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that heavy reliance on sales taxes is a characteristic of the most regressive tax systems. The half-cent sales tax increase would bring Sacramento’s sales tax rate to 8.75 percent, on par with the city of Isleton for the highest in the region. Read more
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