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Tennessee also has no income tax.
The state sales tax is 7%. But the county tax added to it makes a total of 9.75%. Food is taxed at a slightly lower rate, but anything over 0% for food I consider to be unacceptable.
Property tax doesn't seem to buy anything in this county. The schools suck, our roads are bad, etc. We also pay more than the $29 per vehicle for registration than other counties because of a wheel tax. I have a Hybrid Sienna, which adds another $100 onto the registration. The basic registration is going up to $48 this year.
I'd predict that any state that does away with property taxes will increase sales taxes even more.
But, yay, no income tax and maybe no nonschool property tax. 