No one’s saying you don’t show the tax on the receipt. It’s not like no one has figured it out yet.
The EU requires tax to be included in prices displayed to customers, and each country has their own specific country regional and local tax codes. They manage just fine, so can the US.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The VAT rate doesn’t change inside each country does it? The US doesn’t have VAT, and the federal government doesn’t have sales or use tax.
ericisshort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes VAT does change from country to country. Also VAT is more complex than sales tax in that it is applied to various consumer goods as well as some services.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
inside each country. For example is there a different VAT in Paris than Cannes?
ericisshort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That doesn’t actually matter. You are making excuses for why the tax system is too complicated to include tax, and I’m telling you they’ve already solved that issues because the EU, in which most counties share the same currency, companies are required to include tax in the displayed price and show the customer how much of the purchase is tax.
I work with Point of Sale companies and know this problem is solved. It is not too difficult to achieve from a technical or practical perspective, so you’ll have to dig up some other reason this is somehow unachievable.