amazon charge you taxes based on your location.

Taxes are even worse in Canada when you wanna buy a new car

Correct.   5 of the 50 do not.  But all cities (and/or counties) do.

State and local sales taxes apply to just about everything but it does vary state to state.   Food purchased at a grocer is often not taxed by the state though  often locally taxed.

State taxes range from 3% to 7%.  Some items can also range from 1% to 10%.  Toss on local city taxes and rates can reach nearly 12%.

It can be tough to pre-calculate total costs on multiple items but if you live long enough in the same area, you start to get accustomed to how much extra you'll pay.

Can't they just make a law where retailers would just add the tax to the price tag depending on which state they were in. I don't see how that can be too difficult. Maybe for online retailers it might be a bit more complicated, but I'm sure the online retailer could just add the tax into the tag depending on where the person is visiting from (I do understand there might be a few problems with this).

Perhaps I'm making a fuss out of something many Americans don't even care about. In fact the taxes on items were so low during the times I visited the States that I barely even noticed they were deducting taxes. Much nicer than having to pay like 20% taxes over here.

Taxes are changed often.  Like I said, you can have state, county and city taxes.  Not only can that be touhg to keep up with changing sticker prices but iamgine how advertising would work.   You'd have to make a new ad for every single city in the US because what the cost may be in 1 city may not be the same just 5 miles down the road. 

Oooooohh silly Canada

Like anybody cares how much you have to pay :)
(from the netherlands btw.)

Its mad how things in America work out.

In the UK when you buy things the tax is included in the price. No maths need to be done to add tax onto the purchase price of the product. So if i'm buying something for 200 pounds. thats what i pay, not 200 pounds then 20% tax on top or whatever the rate is in the USA.

i think they wouldn't have to change the ads, if people see the ads they would know that's the price without tax (it's not as if they don't already have the problem even with taxless price tags) but instead of never telling the customers how much they really have to pay until they stand at the check-out they could get the information when they see the product on the shelf. that's much better for people who are just on a shoppig tour which should be a much higher percentage as people who want to buy something they saw in an ad  and it's especially much better for people who come from another city/state/country with another tax and want to buy something.

give the customer the price he has to pay and when he pays for it he will get a receipt with all informations about how much of the price is tax and everything and not "give the customer the price without tax and he will know what he has to pay when he already has his credit card in his hands"^^

but if tax really changes every few months and not only once every few years this could be really a reason because that would be too much stciker prices too change all the time.

Tell that to my daughter, Iyolah. She died before ever paying a single tax dollar.

Speaking of, pay more in taxes and have Universal Health Care (Canada) or pay less in taxes and die of curable diseases. America, leggo!

I think amazon charges sales tax bases on a few things. Their location and your location. Where i live (in the US) there is a 7% sales tax but amazon doesnt charge tax. I think this is because they are based out of somewhere that doesnt require taxes. BUT in some states (like (i think) california) there is a mandatory sales tax on all bought goods so amazon has to charge them taxes. I dont really know a ton about this but saying its only based on your location has to be false...i think. So i guess i will refine my question. Does Amazon.ca charge sales tax throughout the entirety of canada and if it does, is it the same amount as if you bought something from the store?

PS: i could be totally wrong on this so if you actually know what you are talking about and werent just speculating feel free to put me in my place