LOL, that someone was wrong. It’s probably because sales tax varies by state, county and even city. Also, people are stupid and will blame the store for higher prices than the one in the next town over.
And when you ask a store what the tax rate is, they’ll look at you like you asked if you could fuck their mom (at least it was my personal experience the first 3 times, didn’t bother after that).
Over here in Sweden, VAT (sales tax) applies to private consumption, while businesses can buy without VAT applied (I assume that applies to most of EU and probably USA too?). So when you’re buying stuff from companies that sell both to consumers and to other companies you’ll often set both prices listed, base price without VAT and with VAT included.
LOL, that someone was wrong. It’s probably because sales tax varies by state, county and even city. Also, people are stupid and will blame the store for higher prices than the one in the next town over.
And when you ask a store what the tax rate is, they’ll look at you like you asked if you could fuck their mom (at least it was my personal experience the first 3 times, didn’t bother after that).
Over here in Sweden, VAT (sales tax) applies to private consumption, while businesses can buy without VAT applied (I assume that applies to most of EU and probably USA too?). So when you’re buying stuff from companies that sell both to consumers and to other companies you’ll often set both prices listed, base price without VAT and with VAT included.