No I like the principle behind it because I think the reason they do it is to highlight to people how much of their money is actually being taken by the government rather than going towards the goods and business they are giving it to. They care about that kind of thing in the USA.

its a marketing tactic. putting something at 1.99 instead of 2.10

Psychologically makes people more likely to buy.

They like to know how much taxes they paying so that they can get suitably annoyed about it and that keeps the taxes down. Seems odd, but i get the point of it

From my research it seems like the United States doesn’t add sales tax because of tradition and simplicity.

But wouldn’t it be more simple just to add it with the price? Even with items with higher taxes like tobacco products it shouldn’t be that hard.

They could show the prices broken down into two categories. What the store charges and what the government charges, on the same label. This way we can know the real price and still see how much of the price is taxes. Problem solved.

come and move to oregon where sales tax doesnt exist

actually nevermind lets keep oregon rural actually forget what i said

Originally posted by Vinz Clortho:

No I like the principle behind it because I think the reason they do it is to highlight to people how much of their money is actually being taken by the government rather than going towards the goods and business they are giving it to. They care about that kind of thing in the USA.

In foreign countries VAT (value added tax) and service charge is literally on the receipt.

But these days people are too stupid to take the receipt.

I like that here (Europe) VAT is included you never get a surprise with check-out just because you miscalculated the VAT.

I'm sorry you can't do basic math.

I always thought, that in the US the customer was king until I shopped for the first time in a super market. This sales tax nonsense is anti-consumer, because as a customer I don't care, what the shop earns, I only care, what I have to pay for the item.

Initially I wanted to get rid of some of the equally stupid and customer-unfriendly small change (the largest common coin is a quarter?!?) by paying the exact price at the cashier, like I would do that in Europe. There, if I bought a single item worth 1.95, I simply could get rid of change by paying the exact amount. Couldn't do that in the US without blocking all the people beind me, since I did not know, that that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Snickers would actually cost me in the end without going online and finding out about the tax of the state I was currently in.

What an extremely stupid system.

Originally posted by Focus:

They could show the prices broken down into two categories. What the store charges and what the government charges, on the same label. This way we can know the real price and still see how much of the price is taxes. Problem solved.

I don't care what the government charges. I only care what I have to pay in the end. I don't want to do the shop owners tax returns.

Idk about other countries but I always assume my bill for anythijng is gonna be 10-20% larger than I assume. Sometimes even more.

Originally posted by Ulfrinn:

I'm sorry you can't do basic math.

I could do the math, but why should I? Because the shop can't do the math? Are American shops owners stoopid?

Originally posted by Garou:

Idk about other countries but I always assume my bill for anythijng is gonna be 10-20% larger than I assume. Sometimes even more.

I can tell you about "other countries". The price you pay is the price on the price tag. It is really, really, really simple.