Should taxes be included in the final price?
I think life would be so much easier if taxes were included in the final price of products. Since airlines are now being forced to show their final price including tax, why shouldn't stores? Who else thinks this would be convenient?
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s21
asked 4 months ago
For one thing, it would be different depending on which state you live in.
I don't think that this is something can be done. Especially with taxes changing in different states. Imagine if you had thousands of products and had to go and change the price tag on them now that the sales tax went up .5%
Not only are taxes different by state, some state have counties that add their own sales tax, so it's not uniform throughout a state either.
then what about the tax exempt customers? like the churches, businesses buying for resale, schools, certain charities....
Airlines are a special case, because the taxes and fees make up such a large percentage of the final cost. Sales tax, on the other hand, is relatively easy to compute and is a relatively small portion of a price. Adding sales tax to price tags would actually make things more confusing, I think.
Airline tax is a strange one.
Yes. So you know the final price without having to figure it out somehow.
No. So you know how much the govt. is raking you (or company) over the coals.
Fees... ALL should be listed/stated before purchase.
Sales tax, in a perfect world? Yes, it should be listed.
But taxes can literally change city to city.
So my answer on that would be no.
@elforman: Not only does it very from state to state, county by county, sometime there is even a city tax that is involved. I don't know how anyone keeps track of all the different taxes that a single order can generate.
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