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Galaki on 24 February 2012
smbu2000 said:
I wonder why the tax is so high? 13%, that's crazy high! I remember NYC having a pretty high tax when I visited there years ago.

CA tax varies by county but I'm pretty sure the highest rates are in the 8-9% range, generally being higher in the big cities (LA, SF). My county wasn't too bad in the 7.25 or 7.5 range I believe though it might've changed since I've been gone. Nothing close to 13% though.

As far as I remember, we used to have 15% sales tax. It was eventually drop to 14 and then 13.

Move (populated) provinces in Canada have 13% sales tax now.



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manuel on 24 February 2012
smbu2000 said:
I wonder why the tax is so high? 13%, that's crazy high! 


Our friends in Sweden and Norway pay 25% as far as I know...



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smbu2000 on 24 February 2012
Galaki said:
smbu2000 said:
I wonder why the tax is so high? 13%, that's crazy high! I remember NYC having a pretty high tax when I visited there years ago.

CA tax varies by county but I'm pretty sure the highest rates are in the 8-9% range, generally being higher in the big cities (LA, SF). My county wasn't too bad in the 7.25 or 7.5 range I believe though it might've changed since I've been gone. Nothing close to 13% though.

As far as I remember, we used to have 15% sales tax. It was eventually drop to 14 and then 13.

Move (populated) provinces in Canada have 13% sales tax now.

Oh, it's in Canada! That's why! I saw the mention about NOA being based in California and that's where I thought the tax rate would derive from, my mistake. ;-p




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smbu2000 on 24 February 2012
manuel said:
smbu2000 said:
I wonder why the tax is so high? 13%, that's crazy high! 


Our friends in Sweden and Norway pay 25% as far as I know...

Yikes! Then again that does go towards a lot of social services, does it not?




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manuel on 24 February 2012

I guess so.



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Euphoria14 on 24 February 2012
Wagram said:
I have to pay 8% tax on everything up here in NY. If I buy it off of the internet, PSN, eShop, or anything else.

Nothing new for me.

Strange, I live in Suffolk County, Long Island NY and when I bought Plants Vs Zombies off the Vita PSN last night I only had to pay $14.99, no tax.



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siavm on 24 February 2012

I pay like 6.5% here in illinois. Luckily that is lower than the 9% state tax we have. I had to pay tax on psn too but recently I have had no tax. They must have moved an office out of my state or something. Lots of companies have been leaving my state recently.



TomaTito on 24 February 2012
smbu2000 said:
manuel said:
smbu2000 said:
I wonder why the tax is so high? 13%, that's crazy high! 


Our friends in Sweden and Norway pay 25% as far as I know...

Yikes! Then again that does go towards a lot of social services, does it not?

The tax in Greece is as high but with less social services, though that's due to other reasons...



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BlkPaladin on 28 February 2012
hentai_11 said:
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Heh so it can be done. Put this will probally work until they update the system.

I doubt that they will remove it by a system update. It should be legal to move from one state to another and of course you must pay the taxes of the state where you moved to. There is no GPS in the 3DS so there is no way that the 3DS can tell which tax he should choose. I think it will be kind of funny if most 3DS owners in the USA live in "Alaska" to save tax.

However tax fraud is a crime and every 3DS owner must choose if he want to commit the crime or play by the rules.


They could use some sort of location service in it stead, but it would be a little hard to remove to ablity to mave.