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Re:Audiblegate by eru on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:27AM (#30371168)
VAT is baked into retail prices in Germany. And retail prices are typically either something round or end in .99 or so; ie not arbitrary.

So it's unlikely their German prices would just take the same input as eg Dutch prices and changed the VAT around.

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Re:Audiblegate by iqanq on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:47AM (#30371300)
I know how VAT works. If the government changes the VAT overnight then prices won't round to .99 until merchants (or Amazon themselves) change the base price again. I don't see the issue.
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Re:Audiblegate by germanier on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:48AM (#30372090)
Usually in B2C prices are quoted and agreed upon as gross price (including tax). If the tax rate is lowered, this then raises the base price.
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Re:Audiblegate by eru on Thursday February 17, 2022 @09:52PM (#30381607)
I mentioned this, because American retail prices as quoted typically don't include their equivalent of VAT.
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