Water Recycling. Businesses, cities, and people are finding new ways to save water by reusing it. Many businesses have started recycling water that they use in their manufacturing process. Instead of letting water run down the drain, the water is collected, cleaned (if needed) and run back through the system.
The New Jersey state sales tax rate is 7%, and the average NJ sales tax after local surtaxes is 6.97%. 1  Groceries, clothing and prescription drugs are exempt from the New Jersey sales tax. 2  Counties and cities are not allowed to collect local sales taxes.
Currently, New Jersey imposes a 10.5 cents per gallon tax on the sale of gasoline and a 13.5 cents per gallon tax on diesel fuel. Although the tax is passed directly to the consumer at the retail level, it is actually collected by the Division of Taxation at the wholesale level from distributors. New Jersey's motor fuel tax rate has consistently ranked in the range of 45th-48th lowest in the country. The tax was last raised in 1988 by 2.5 cents when it was only 8 cents per gallon for gasoline and 11 cents for diesel.