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frog@feddit.uk 1 day agoSomeone 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 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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 hours 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.
Natanael@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
Over here in Sweden, VAT (sales tax) applies to private consumption, while businesses can buy without VAT applied (I assume that applies to most of EU and probably USA too?). So when you’re buying stuff from companies that sell both to consumers and to other companies you’ll often set both prices listed, base price without VAT and with VAT included.