• dalekcaan@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    I’m just waiting for the US to join the rest of the world in including tax in the price.

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      2 months ago

      That’d be nice, a number of places do, but it isn’t mandated. I also liked it when places did their prices so the totals would come to a quarter. So a total couldn’t come out to be anything other than 10.25 or something, so you never had to deal with change outside quarters.

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      2 months ago

      Someone on Reddit said taxes in the US is more complicated. Some people have senior discounts, business can buy things tax free, and veterans have military discounts. Tons of upvotes.

      This is stupid considering a lot of countries have the same discounts and they just subtract those things from the listed price.

      The only reason why I can think of why the US does this is so when they compare prices to other states or other countries, they can trick people that it’s the same price.

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        2 months ago

        LOL, that someone was wrong. It’s probably because sales tax varies by state, county and even city. Also, people are stupid and will blame the store for higher prices than the one in the next town over.

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          2 months ago

          And when you ask a store what the tax rate is, they’ll look at you like you asked if you could fuck their mom (at least it was my personal experience the first 3 times, didn’t bother after that).