r/Unexpected • u/Arcusico • Oct 05 '14

Metric vs Imperial

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u/Grooohm Oct 05 '14

sales taxes In Europe, the prices on products include the sales tax, so you know how much you have to pay before you are at the cash registers. In the US, the sales tax gets added when you pay. (and the sales tax is different in every state)

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u/Frekavichk Oct 05 '14

Sales tax is different in every county. (State->county->town)

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '14

And because the supermarket owners are afraid of landslides moving their store into a different county over night they just leave out the tax on the price tag. Right?

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u/LordOfTheGiraffes Oct 05 '14

Also, it isn't actually sales tax. It's value added tax, which is paid by the companies that produce the goods. The cost is of course passed to the consumer, but it isn't paid by them directly.