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0 pointsmaaku14y ago0 comments

At least in the US, sales tax is assessed locally, so it can vary even within a particular region. Dealing with fixed prices and additional sales tax is the only reasonable way to run a business that crosses multiple localities.

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milanst14y ago· 3 in thread

What about gas prices? The displayed price is what you actually pay, it always includes all the taxes.

I guess the businesses are not required to do this for other products and naturally they choose to display the lower price, i.e. the one excluding taxes.

maakuOP14y ago

Gas prices vary from street to street. People expect that.

On the other hand, a cleaning product from target costs $2.99 (plus tax) no matter where I live.

_delirium14y ago

Yeah, for whatever reason most (all?) states have decided to specifically require that advertised gasoline prices include all taxes and fees, but haven't done the same for other products. Though there are some moves afoot to require it for mobile telephone contracts as well.

flomo14y ago

Probably because many people want to purchase exactly $X of gas.

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