Accounts Receivable Tax

Building Permit Tax

Capital Gains Tax

CDL license Tax

Cigarette Tax

Corporate Income Tax

Court Fines (indirect taxes)

Dog License Tax

Federal Income Tax

Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)

Fishing License Tax

Food License Tax

Fuel permit tax

Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)

Hunting License Tax

Inheritance Tax Interest expense (tax on the money)

Inventory tax IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)

IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)

Liquor Tax

Local Income Tax

Luxury Taxes

Marriage License Tax

Medicare Tax

Property Tax

Real Estate Tax

Septic Permit Tax

Service Charge Taxes

Social Security Tax

Road Usage Taxes (Truckers)

Sales Taxes

Recreational Vehicle Tax

Road Toll Booth Taxes

School Tax

State Income Tax

State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)

Telephone federal excise tax

Telephone federal universal service fee tax

Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes

Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax

Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax

Telephone state and local tax

Telephone usage charge tax

Toll Bridge Taxes

Toll Tunnel Taxes

Traffic Fines (indirect taxation)

Trailer registration tax

Utility Taxes

Vehicle License Registration Tax

Vehicle Sales Tax

Watercraft registration Tax

Well Permit Tax

Workers Compensation Tax



COMMENT: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and our nation was the most prosperous in the world, had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What the hell happened?

It's called Bureaucracy!

What about thumb tax? X :~)

Accounts Receivable tax? What the heck is that?

Also, some of your "taxes" are not taxes at all but are fees. (i.e. Building permit).

Potato, potahto... those "fees" are taxes.... something tells me that without all those taxes, we wouldn't need as many of the Bill of No Rights...

RDC,

Don't know much politics or economy, but what does Mom staying home raising the kids have to do with any of this?

Billy

Maybe yes and maybe no al'thor.

A taxes is something that is assessed on something with the money going to support an unrelated activity.

For instance my property tax money goes to support various social service and law enforcement activities in my county. That really has nothing to do with my house does it.

A fee is assessed and the money goes to a related activity. A marriage license fee goes to record the cost of that marriage license by the local register of deeds. The money doesn't go to support some other activity.

Usually with a fee you are getting a direct benefit from paying it. With a tax you may or may not get a benefit from it. And if you do get a benefit it is usually an indirect one.

There aren't too many fees you go to jail for refusing to pay.

billyjackson

The point is that, if these taxes didnt all exist, then maybe mom wouldnt have to work and could stay home and raise the kids.

Many moons ago when I was a kid, many more moms were staying home and raising the kids. Now more babysitters and daycare centers raise peoples kids. Thats not as good as being raised by your own parents...

Plabonte

Whether its called a tax or a fee, if it goes to any government program or project whats the difference in the end? Unless its cut, we all have to pay for it one way or another...

If the cost comes out of my pocket and is called either, it feels the same to me...

The difference is a with a fee you are directly paying for a product or service you are receiving. With a tax you aren't.

Lets look at "Road Toll Booth tax". You only pay this when you use the roads that the toll booth is on. If you don't use the roads you don't pay it. The money for the toll booth goes (in theory) to help maintain those roads. So in essence you are paying a maintenance fee.

If you own a condo you probably pay an association fee and that money (again in theory)goes to maintain the condo. Do you call this a condo tax?

If you don't own a car you aren't going to pay at a toll booth because you aren't using the road.

If it was a tax (lets say a percentage of your real estate goes to support local roads) you have to pay that whether or not you own a car. And if you don't own a car you aren't getting any direct bennefit.

Just because money is going to a Government entity doesn't mean it a tax.

Ever hear of a municipal golf course? Your green's fee goes to a government. Why isn't there a golf tax then on the list.

Because it isn't a tax its a fee. Get it?

You can call em fees or tax then. Out here in Cal, toll booth costs are called fees not tax. You may be correct about the state you live in. But its not as you say, in every instance out here. What state do you live in?

I own a business. I have licences that say fees & ones that say tax. I have no choice in whether I pay or not. I feel they are all the same...

What's all this whining about taxies, we don't have enough taxies. Have you ever tried hailing a taxi or ordering a taxi, you can't get one when you... er what taxes oh er never mind. JonR

you left out the Death Tax?? if this hasn't been mentioned before??

Hog

No matter what it's called, it's taxation without representation and will NEVER change until "We the People" take the government back and return it to "We the People". I'm not a libertarian type but I AM sick of wind up perfumed talking heads.

Boy I'm not sure how I can make this any clearer.

Lets try it this way. If its a fee you get a benefit from it. If its a tax you may or may not get a benefit from it.

I live in Wisconsin. If the Milwaukee Bucks want renovations to the Bradley center where they play they up the price of the ticket. In essence attaching a renovation fee to it. If I don't see the Bucks play I don't pay the fee. If I see them I pay the fee and get the benefit of an updated facility.

When the Green Bay Packers want renovations to Lambo field an increase in the sales tax is done. Thus I'm paying for the renovation even if I don't go to the stadium. And if I don't go I'm not getting any beneift.

Plabonte, all I see is that you know YOUR states ways. Its not always that way in CA. Why the heck do you care anyway?

Like I said before, If its costing anything, and I have no choice, but to pay, I dont care what it's called. Do you get that?

Oh I get it now.

So when you buy fruit you pay a fruit tax because you don't have a choice of paying or not. And when you get your hair cut you pair a hair tax. And when you get a massage you pay a massage tax. Pretty much anytime any money comes out of your wallet its a tax because you don't have a choice of paying or not since nothing is free.

Thanks for clearing that up for me Tobasco.

No, what I get is that you dont know what you are talkink about when it refers to other states. In CA there is no tax on food, there is no tax on labor.

Bridges and roads have no tax, they're fees. Its different here. Worry about your own state, cause you sure dont know about this state.

Fee = Tax
Tax = Fee

Either way, somebody is taking your money. Using the word 'fee' doesn't sound as bad as using the word 'tax', but either way you slice it - it doesn't matter. Nothing's free.....you want something, you have to pay. Simple concept.