I recently realized that I didn't know exactly how much the Massachusetts meals tax was any more. Here's what I found at the state DOR website.
The state meals tax rate is 6.25%, with a local option to raise it to 7%. The following cities and towns voted for the local increase. The increase was effective on 10/1/09, except for towns with an asterisk* where it will take effect on 1/1/10.
The DOR also provided estimates of local restaurant (and hotel) tax revenue for every town, except towns with 1 or 2 restaurants to protect their privacy. An Excel spreadsheet is online at http://www.mass.gov/Ador/docs/dls/mdmstuf/LocalOptions/MealsandRooms.xls . You can divide the amounts by .0075 to get the actual restaurant revenues per town.
The towns with the top 5 revenues are Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, Springfield, and Newton. Devens, Montgomery, and Mount Washington are the only towns with no restaurants. (Devens isn't actually a municipality, but for some reason it's included as town number 352 in the spreadsheet.)
Jimmy <JimmyGeldb...@mailinator.com> wrote: >I recently realized that I didn't know exactly how much the >Massachusetts meals tax was any more. Here's what I found at the >state DOR website.
>The state meals tax rate is 6.25%, with a local option to raise it to >7%. The following cities and towns voted for the local increase. The >increase was effective on 10/1/09, except for towns with an asterisk* >where it will take effect on 1/1/10.
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