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The Tennessee Department of Revenue (TDOR) is an agency within the Tennessee state government that is responsible for administering the state’s tax laws and motor vehicle title and registration laws. More than 800 people work for the Department of Revenue. [1] The Department collects about 87 percent of total state revenue.
Tennessee has a reputation as low-tax state and is usually ranked as one of the five states with the lowest tax burden on residents. [7] It is one of nine states that do not have a general income tax; the sales tax is the primary means of funding the government. [8] The Hall income tax was a tax imposed on most dividends and interest.
In the United States, every state with a sales tax law has a use tax component in that law applying to purchases from out-of-state mail order, catalog and e-commerce vendors, a category also known as "remote sales". [25] As e-commerce sales have grown in recent years, noncompliance with use tax has had a growing impact on state revenues.
Tennessee has one of the highest sales taxes in the nation, and unlike most states, also places a sales tax on food. Tennessee also has elected officials who are happy with placing its citizens on ...
The use tax, like the sales tax, is assessed upon the end consumer of the tangible property or service, but the difference is who calculates the tax and how it is accounted for. The sales tax is collected by the seller, who is acting as an agent of the state and thus remits the tax to the state on behalf of the end consumer.
The Tennessee Senate has approved a franchise tax revision that unnecessarily will refund $1.9 billion of state tax collections — Tennesseans’ money — to companies in Tennessee and most or ...