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And Hawaii. See the general excise tax. Fun fact: it's a recursive tax on business revenue (not profit), so if you gross up prices to pass along the tax to customers on a transactional basis, you also need to pay GET on the gross up, ad infinitum. For example, on Oahu this results in a final grossup of approximately 4.7120% (starting from a base GET of 4.5%).


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