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Viper1 on 29 October 2012
JEMC said:
Viper1 said:

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%.

 

I can understand having 1 tax per state (like in Europe there is 1 tax per country), and I could understand having 1 tax per city (bigger cities need more money to run and taxes are a good wayto get it). Hell, here we have city taxes for services like collecting and recicling the garbage and traffic. But different taxes per county? I found it a bit too much.

Viper1 said:

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.

Does it mean that for something that costs 100 you could end paying 7+10+12% in taxes making it 129? Or only 1 or 2 but not all 3 can be applied at the same time?

You can have all 3 but it's rare that combined they exceed 11%.  Here in Flroida all combined never go above 9.5%.   It's 7.0% combined in my city/county.



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JEMC on 29 October 2012
Viper1 said:
JEMC said:
Viper1 said:

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%.

 

I can understand having 1 tax per state (like in Europe there is 1 tax per country), and I could understand having 1 tax per city (bigger cities need more money to run and taxes are a good wayto get it). Hell, here we have city taxes for services like collecting and recicling the garbage and traffic. But different taxes per county? I found it a bit too much.

Viper1 said:

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.

Does it mean that for something that costs 100 you could end paying 7+10+12% in taxes making it 129? Or only 1 or 2 but not all 3 can be applied at the same time?

You can have all 3 but it's rare that combined they exceed 11%.  Here in Flroida all combined never go above 9.5%.   It's 7.0% combined in my city/county.

I see, thanks.



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mrstickball on 29 October 2012
crissindahouse said:

like i said to viper, if you know that ads are without tax there is only as much confusion for you as if you see it on a price tag without and have to pay then a price you don't really know before (even if you know your tax most won't really know the exact price, not to talk about everyone who doesn't live there and want to buy something there)

no clue why ow both of you think people wouldn't understand that price tags have tax included but ads not but they understand that price tags have no tax included but they guy on the check.out tells you another price with tax then...

 

If you really need to add taxes to the sticker price so you know what you'd pay, you really need to get more math education. Its really not a big deal in the US, especially as many items are exempt from the tax (such as food).

Having said that, some businesses do pro-rate the taxes, so if the sticker price is $199.99, the real price is $199.99 less taxes, so you do in fact pay $199.99 at the counter. Its not usually done that way, though, because it assumes that the retailer is eating the cost of taxes, which most aren't.



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crissindahouse on 29 October 2012
mrstickball said:
crissindahouse said:

like i said to viper, if you know that ads are without tax there is only as much confusion for you as if you see it on a price tag without and have to pay then a price you don't really know before (even if you know your tax most won't really know the exact price, not to talk about everyone who doesn't live there and want to buy something there)

no clue why ow both of you think people wouldn't understand that price tags have tax included but ads not but they understand that price tags have no tax included but they guy on the check.out tells you another price with tax then...

 

If you really need to add taxes to the sticker price so you know what you'd pay, you really need to get more math education. Its really not a big deal in the US, especially as many items are exempt from the tax (such as food).

Having said that, some businesses do pro-rate the taxes, so if the sticker price is $199.99, the real price is $199.99 less taxes, so you do in fact pay $199.99 at the counter. Its not usually done that way, though, because it assumes that the retailer is eating the cost of taxes, which most aren't.

i don't need it but there are poeple who have huge problems even for the easiest math (and if it's only 1% of those) and like i said, you can't calculate it if you don't even know what the exact tax is in that city you are right now and having to inform which tax every place you visit has just to know how much they will add to the price on the price tag does also not sound so comfortable if you could just see the exact price on the price tag (nowadays with internet and smartphones it's much easier as it was maybe 20 years ago).

but hey i already said i understood you are all ok with that so i think the discussion was long enough now.



Viper1 on 29 October 2012
crissindahouse said:

i don't need it but there are poeple who have huge problems even for the easiest math (and if it's only 1% of those) and like i said, you can't calculate it if you don't even know what the exact tax is in that city you are right now and having to inform which tax every place you visit has just to know how much they will add to the price on the price tag does also not sound so comfortable if you could just see the exact price on the price tag (nowadays with internet and smartphones it's much easier as it was maybe 20 years ago).

but hey i already said i understood you are all ok with that so i think the discussion was long enough now.

The average person that has that kind of problem with math doesn't shop alone.

And even if they did, they know it will come with tax anyway so they aren't exactly surprised when the cost of 5 items at the register is a little higher than the total cost on the stikcers.  Besides, if they are adding up several items to get a total before they get to teh register, they can't be that bad at math.



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