Third world country

[Likeicare]

 

[lurk]

id like to say its just a vestigial remnant of the pre-internet age, but its just as likely a litmus test to keep the people who cant do simple math poor.

 

[Likeicare]

How is not displaying the actual price related to the internet

 

[Sleepy]

it's like this here too and it's mostly because sales tax differs depending on what you're buying and what province you're in.

 

[lurk]

there's no national sales tax, what items get taxed and how much is set at the state, county, and city level.

 

[Maniac200688]

I use to eat at a chinese place, the guy made great sweet and sour chicken but he would tax the tax and add it to the bill, so 13% gst, the 13% got taxed and it was more expensive.

 

[weedville]

I use to eat at a chinese place, the guy made great sweet and sour chicken but he would tax the tax and add it to the bill, so 13% gst, the 13% got taxed and it was more expensive.

Yeah for some reason if asians make the chinese food it's way more expensive. Honestly I would rather have bob in the back making it than them charging an absurd amount for it being "authentic"

 

[Lovecraft]

I use to eat at a chinese place, the guy made great sweet and sour chicken but he would tax the tax and add it to the bill, so 13% gst, the 13% got taxed and it was more expensive.

If he added sales tax of 13% on top of 13%, it'd only increase the total by 1.7%, so not exactly an eye-watering difference.
He should just add a 2% "not spitting in hour food fee" instead

 

[Maniac200688]

If he added sales tax of 13% on top of 13%, it'd only increase the total by 1.7%, so not exactly an eye-watering difference.
He should just add a 2% "not spitting in hour food fee" instead

No white eatery does taxing the taxing but more than 1 asian place has done that and I havent even tried a jewish bagel shop. If I can ever go to new york again i would see if they taxed the tax.

 

[Lovecraft]

No white eatery does taxing the taxing but more than 1 asian place has done that and I havent even tried a jewish bagel shop. If I can ever go to new york again i would see if they taxed the tax.

Probably fucking you over some other way.
Sounds to me like they are either speculating on the fact that their customers don't know shit about tax rules and/or basic middle school math, or they themselves don't fully understand the rules or basic math.

 

[Quence]

What sort of idiot would want the taxed amount hidden in the total price? Anyone with a smidgen of common sense wants their costs itemized.

 

[Crassmeister]

there's no national sales tax, what items get taxed and how much is set at the state, county, and city level.

yep it's chaos
dont like it, move to montana and enjoy the miserable winters

State and Local Sales Tax Rates, 2024

Retail sales taxes are an essential part of most states’ revenue toolkits, responsible for 32 percent of state tax collections and 13 percent of local tax collections (24 percent of combined collections).

taxfoundation.org

 

[Likeicare]

What sort of idiot would want the taxed amount hidden in the total price? Anyone with a smidgen of common sense wants their costs itemized.

Nigga what

 

[Cobalt]

Because Amerifats will do anything to avoid using Celsius.

 

[squiggles]

To be fair it did make a lot of them lose money.

 

[Likeicare]

it's like this here too and it's mostly because sales tax differs depending on what you're buying and what province you're in.

ok even so why not just display the price youre paying, where you are

 

[Lovecraft]

Here shelfside price labels commonly lists price inc. VAT, unit price, VAT rate or price without VAT.
VAT comes in four flavours; Excempt, 12%, 15% and 25%, applied to clearly defined categories.

 

[Quence]

Here shelfside price labels commonly lists price inc. VAT, unit price, VAT rate or price without VAT.
VAT comes in four flavours; Excempt, 12%, 15% and 25%, applied to clearly defined categories.

Cod is Cod. The price doesn’t fluctuate much for that staple of the Norwegian diet.

 

[Lovecraft]

Cod is Cod. The price doesn’t fluctuate much for that staple of the Norwegian diet.

The price fluctuates quite substantially depending on the season actually. For being so cod-obsessed you know surprisingly little about the actualities of fishery.

 

[Likeicare]

why is every country other than australia (and nz) so strange lol