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1. Tuba City and part of Coconino County, Ariz.
13.725%
The doubtful honor of getting America's highest sales tax--by far--goes to Arizona's largest Navajo Indian Reservation town, which tacks on just about $1 to a $7 purchase. Not all of the hit is paid by the vacationers streaming along U.S. Route A hundred and sixty to the Grand Canyon; Tuba City has 8,two hundred citizens.
2. Kayenta, Ariz.
12.1%
Arizona's big building up in its statewide sales tax--from 5.6% to 6.6%--put Kayenta, some other Navajo Indian Reservation the city, in the runner-up position on this checklist. Much of the levy is paid via vacationers to close by Monument Valley. Keyenta's legit website online has sections on monetary matters and tourism--but they sure do not point out this.
3. Various puts, Coconino County, Ariz.
11.725%
Home to nearly all of the Grand Canyon and the most important county in the continental U.S., Coconino County takes good benefit of vacationers. The lofty sales tax is located at the Navajo Reservation, which covers a quarter of the county, and in the non-reservation town of Fredonia, sitting on one of the most best two routes to the North Rim.
4. San Luis, Ariz.
11.7%
This Colorado River town's border crossing with Mexico promises that many of us passing thru have to stop. And once they do, San Luis adds its 4% city tax to the state's 6.6% and Yuma County's 1.1%.
5. Central City, La.
11.5%
Louisiana's newest city, this Baton Rouge suburb wedged between two rivers now has the state's highest sales tax chew. Its web page broadcasts "a community that cares"--about taxes, anyway.
6. Winkelman, Ariz.
11.2%
This previous mining the town north of Tucson sits in a space infamous for 19th-century killers like "Jack The Ripper of Ash Creek." These days, the 440 citizens and passing travelers get killed through the sales tax. But those in the a part of town over in Gila County pay 0.1% less.
7. Mansfield, Ark.
11.125%
The 50-inch annual rainfall is not the one factor soaking residents of this tiny the city south of Fort Smith. Residents of the jap part in Scott County pay the state's highest sales tax.
8. Various towns, Apache and Navajo Counties, Ariz.
11.1%
In Arizona's northeast nook, greater than a dozen Navajo Indian Reservation towns impose this hefty levy. It consists of a 6.6% state tax, a 4% trial tax and a 0.5% native tax.
9. Arab, Ala. (tie)
11.0%
With a 1% minimize in the combined sales tax, the small portion of this northeastern Alabama town sticking into Cullman County now not sports the country's highest such levy. The town's title comes from Washington, D.C., bureaucrats who misinterpret the name on an utility to open a publish workplace.
9. Somerton, Ariz. (tie)
11.0%
Nestled in Arizona's southwest corner near California and Mexico, the town sits on land that was a part of a fraudulent Mexican land grant. Today's sales tax chunk, regardless that, is very actual.
9. Dermott and Eudora, Ark. (tie)
11.0%
The two cities are in Chicot County, which hugs the Mississippi River in the state's southeastern nook and has terrific farmland. Chicot is a French word meaning "stumpy" and is thought to consult with sticking-up above-ground roots of cypress timber.
9. Bellwood, Ill. (tie)
11.0%
Last year's No. 2--the portion of this suffering Chicago suburb of 20,000 sitting in a industry development--has fallen because of a zero.5% drop in the tax. Bellwood is the hometown of astronaut Eugene Cernan, the ultimate man to walk at the moon.
9. Lake Providence, La. (tie)
11.0%
Louisiana's second-highest sales tax is found in the state's impoverished northeastern corner. Lake Providence is the birthplace of billionaire Sam Wyly--and William J. Jefferson, the convicted ex-Congressman stuck with $90,000 of bribe money in his freezer.
9. Hallett and Fort Gibson, Oklahoma (tie)
11.0%
Oklahoma's highest sales tax is located in two puts that take a seat eighty miles aside with Tulsa in between. Fort Gibson is the state's oldest the town, based in 1824. With a population of 168, Hallett is one of the state's smallest towns.
10. Springfield, Mo.
10.85%
Buy something in one of 4 particular tax districts decorating the "Queen City of the Ozarks," and you get hit with Missouri's highest sales tax. Look around, and the speed can fall to as low as 7.6%.
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