Definition of rail. 1  1a : a bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrierb : a structural member or support. 2  2a : railing 1b : a light structure serving as a guard at the outer edge of a ship's deckc : a fence bounding a racetrack.
New Jersey (NJ) Sales Tax Rates by City. The state sales tax rate in New Jersey is 6.875%. There are no local taxes beyond the state rate. Most of New Jersey has the same sales tax rate. Regions of some cities in the state are part of the Urban Enterprise Zone. These regions have a reduced sales tax rate of 3.4375% to encourage consumers to make purchases in these regions. New Jersey has recent rate changes (Sun Jan 01 2017).
But after New Jersey ran out of money to pay for transportation projects, Republican Gov. Chris Christie and the state's Democratic-led Legislature agreed to raise the gas tax by 23 cents. It will go from 14.5 cents per gallon to 37.5 cents, marking the first time it has been raised since 1988. Rather than the second-lowest gas taxes in the nation behind Alaska, New Jersey will catapult to sixth highest. NJ Gas Tax Rises Tuesday The Garden State will go from having the 2nd-lowest gasoline tax in the country to the 6th-highest.