• @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

    no percentages

    Don’t you still have to tip your government? I always hear about how USA prices don’t include the tax, so you are going to have to calculate percentages no matter what.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 years ago

      that’s because it’s too hard to calculate state tax before checkout. it’s much easier to calculate it at checkout. if only computers could help with this

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          It’s not actually difficult. Small businesses do it trivially.

          Large corporations just want to make their prices look smaller and make you think the government is the problem

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          In some places the state/city sales tax rate can fluctuate. That means they would have to reprint and replace every label in the entire store.

            • @[email protected]
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              32 years ago

              It varies from place to place. In the city I used to live in the sales tax would also change when there were special municipal projects that needed funding, like a stupid ass arena…

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                32 years ago

                That still doesn’t answer the question.

                How many times did it change for you? Every month? Every week? Every day? Every hour? Every minute?

                • @[email protected]
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                  12 years ago

                  Quantum tax rates, you can never know how much they are until you make a purchase and the wave function collapses.

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              Highly variable depending on where you are. Often the next town over will have a different sales tax. There’s a state sales tax rate, which differs state to state, then there is a county/town sales tax added to that, which will vary within the state itself.

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                22 years ago

                There’s a state sales tax rate, which differs state to state, then there is a county/town sales tax added to that, which will vary within the state itself.

                That’s pretty standard, what confuses me about American taxes is how often they seem to change, from Americans’ accounts.

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                  12 years ago

                  What do you mean by that? There’s a lot of different taxes that change from location to location beyond sales tax, is that what you mean?

          • ddh
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            22 years ago

            Or absorb the fluctuations for a while and reprint labels less frequently. These days things are getting e-ink labels anyway.

            • @[email protected]
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              42 years ago

              Most companies try to squeeze every penny they can from you; they aren’t gonna absorb anything. That’s why the common people pay sales tax anyway, instead of the companies that sell the product!

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      12 years ago

      As an Oregonian, i was wondering the same thing: we don’t have sales tax. So the item on the menu costs the same as it does on the bill, but i travel out of state enough to know better than assuming getting rid of tip means there’s no more surprises on the bill.

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      32 years ago

      It’s more so that tax is not included in the price that’s advertised. An item will just show 9.99 + tax. You still pay the tax at the register.