Which of these BEST describes how local governments collect sales tax?
Local governments do not collect sales tax, only state
governments do.
A local government can charge a sales tax in addition to the state
sales tax.
US
Local governments charge a ten percent sales tax on every item
sold in the municipality.
A local government can take all of the sales tax revenue or
choose to give some to the state government.

The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.