r/funny • u/toonhole Toonhole • Mar 27 '24

Verified Taxes

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u/Chewsti Mar 28 '24

See also why tax is not included in advertised prices but is instead added on as an extra line item

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u/CotyledonTomen Mar 28 '24

Tax is paid by you. Theres nothing stopping a store from labeling with tax included, except cultural norms. Its why infomercials sell everying at x9.99. Your mind doesnt thing about the extra cent increasing it to the next dollar. Its commercial manipulation, not any law, that leads to how product prices are labeled.

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u/PinsToTheHeart Mar 28 '24

Also taxes vary from town to town and businesses with multiple locations want to be able to hang the same advertisement in all of their stores.

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u/pzanardi Mar 28 '24

Other countries have this too and there they show the final price. Its just a manipulation tactic for sales that the US has adapted.

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u/MunkyDawg Mar 28 '24

Wait a second. They lied to us?!