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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A vote would be needed to raise local funding through a sales tax increase.
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Alternatively, any sales tax could be recovered at the point of sale.
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Critics point out that a sales tax is regressive, and supporters counter by suggesting that low-income taxpayers could get rebates.
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Frequently the sales tax is levied on the importer or the manufacturer because it is easier to collect at source.
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Others have proposed replacing the federal income tax with something else entirely, such as a national sales tax .
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While all customs duties accrued to the federal government, it received only about one-third of total sales tax revenue in 1985.