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Re:Bill to Ban Hidden Fees in California Signed into Law by guitarbill on Monday October 09, 2023 @02:46AM (#37817641)
Even if by law the post-tax price is shown, is there any law preventing showing the pre-tax price also? Surely not.

Seems to me giving people a shock at the checkout is a particularly evil way of making taxes explicit. It isn't like the taxes aren't broken down on EU receipts for those who care; in fact it's quite explicit.

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Re:Bill to Ban Hidden Fees in California Signed into Law by doikor on Monday October 09, 2023 @03:11AM (#37817830)
> is there any law preventing showing the pre-tax price also?

In the EU the receipt must show what amount of the price was VAT.

This is so that companies can deduct the VAT in taxation (basically only the final consumer of the product/service pays VAT. Everyone else in the chain can deduct it in taxation)

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