Taxes on woodpellets

[Flammam]

In New Hampshire we have no sales tax or income tax. I pay more than a months take home pay in property tax on my very modest home however. I call it the New Hampshire disadvantage. The state run liquor monopoly sells cheap booze to help us forget how screwed the middle class is here.

I get to pay all the state taxes plus my property tax which is exactly a months pay. Lets throw the excise tax on there also while we are at it

 

[whit]

What gets me is that VT taxes books. You can always burn books! Aren't they a heating fuel too?

 

[johnnyb1970]

NJ no sales tax.....

 

[TimfromMA]

One of the few things Mass. doesn't tax.

No tax on unprepared food or clothing either.

 

[D-mac02]

I just bought a ton from hd in Albany today and no tax. 249 a ton for fireside ultras

 

[Wilbur Feral]

PA does not tax pellets.

 

[RKS130]

How many states tax woodpellets for home heat?I know when I used to buy kerosene,I would sign a paper saying I was purchasing for home heating, and the taxes were waived.I'm talking New york now,so you know where I'm coming from,2nd highest taxed state in the nation.

Actually, there can be tax on pellets in NY. The crooks in Albany decided a few years ago that they would pass the buck to the crooks in each County legislature to decide whether or not to tax home heating fuel - of all kinds - and if so at what rate.

Our local crooks here in Westchester County decided on 3%, so that is what I have to pay. A word to the wise, most big box stores charge the full sales tax on individual bags unless you holler. It seems the registers have no way to adjust the rate - only the customer screwing, I mean "service" desk can do that.

EDIT: Looks like this was covered already. Oops!

 

[daument]

no tax here in Pa

 

[yooper81]

I guess MI can tax them as they see fit. 1 place charges me 4%, and two miles down the road they charge me the full 6%. I don't understand that logic. I would like to know what the law really states. I am so close to Wisconsin, maybe I'll go there.....

 

[bags]

I have bought pellets in KY and IN. Both states taxed. KY = 6% and IN = 7%. Sucks!

 

[railfanron]

Yooper for deliverable heating fuels used for residential use the rate is 4% and 6% for non residential use. Deliverable fuels include Heating Oil, Propane, Firewood and Heating fuel pellets.
Ron