The sales tax system in the USA and the cascading effect of sales tax

Taxes are complicated. A casual browsing of the tax codes of the USA offers a glimpse into the vast complexity of federal taxation.

When we talk about sales tax, it is the tax applied to the final sale of a product or service. Unlike VAT or GST, sales tax is not a flat rate that applies to any invoice across the board; It differs from state to state and product to product. Sales taxes are one of the more transparent ways to collect tax revenue.

Sales Tax in the USA relies upon three primary elements:

1. Nexus (The state you have an association with. Since you are at risk to pay the charge in only those states, you have an association with.).
2. Items or the services in your list (diverse taxation rates apply to various items)
3. And when you are excluded from charges (this can vary from state to state also).

According to the USA sales tax system, California has the highest state-level sales tax rate, at 7.25 percent.

Since there is no VAT or GST being followed in the USA, they end up having the cascading effect because of sales taxation. Cascading effect because of the cascade tax. Cascade tax creates higher tax revenues compared to a single-stage tax because a tax is imposed on top of the tax. They are applied at each phase in the supply network, with no conclusion or deduction in the tax for the expense paid that have already been paid at earlier stages. The impact caused is contorting as the cascading effect makes a simulated motivation for a vertical combination.

To put it plainly, “Cascading Effect” adds to the dead weight misfortune, i.e., a droop in the all-out overflow of production network consisting of provider, producer, retailer, and buyer.