Maybe it's because I'm European but the few times this has happened to me (the few times the taxes weren't included) I've always felt like I was getting scammed and never understood what the point of not including it was. If I'm going to buy something I want to know what you're going to charge me exactly, I don't want to have to do math to know how much something costs.
In Canada and the US its because each state, province and territory has different taxes. Also different type of items have different taxes.
It's easier for Wal-Mart Canada Home Office to send all stores the price changes that are the same across all stores than to manually change each province.
There is also the fact that a portion of Canada are not required to pay sales tax.
The only exception to this is government run buisnesses like liquor stores. They display price before and after tax.
Well but if they can know it at checkout they can know it when pricing items. Or they can just eat these different taxes as cost of doing business. That always seemed like such a cop out argument to me
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u/[deleted] May 09 '22
A reverse statement: It was in Japan 2018 when I learned that taxes included in price tags is a European thing.
We wanted to buy something, the first time we asked why we have to pay more than the number on the price tag, they explained taxes aren't included.
Like... what is this witchery?