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Re:Bill to Ban Hidden Fees in California Signed into Law by lern_too_spel on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:03AM (#37832251)
You can't run a national "$5 footlong" or "dollar menu" national ad campaign if some states charge taxes on prepared food and some don't, and of those states that charge taxes, some require tax inclusive pricing and some don't. Tax-inclusive pricing isn't something that can be solved with a state law.
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Re:Bill to Ban Hidden Fees in California Signed into Law by graftak on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @02:54AM (#37841713)
Even if you have a big asterix there for that special tax excluded from the price occasion it will already make lives a lot easier. Such a weird hill to die on.
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Re:Bill to Ban Hidden Fees in California Signed into Law by lern_too_spel on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @11:54AM (#37846112)
An even bigger issue is internet purchases and car purchases. Cars are taxed at the local sales tax rate of where the buyer lives. Internet sales are taxed at the state sales tax rate where the buyer lives.
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Re:Bill to Ban Hidden Fees in California Signed into Law by graftak on Sunday October 15, 2023 @04:31AM (#37888027)
Same in Europe where our ‘state-sized’ countries have different taxes but Amazon has no issue applying a 21% sales tax real time when I order from their .de site where a 20% tax is the local norm.
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Re:Bill to Ban Hidden Fees in California Signed into Law by lern_too_spel on Monday October 16, 2023 @01:04AM (#37896105)
A city is much smaller than a state, and we're talking about advertisements here. Of course they charge you the correct amount.
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Re:Bill to Ban Hidden Fees in California Signed into Law by trealira on Friday October 13, 2023 @11:35PM (#37877884)
>You can't run a national "$5 footlong" or "dollar menu" national ad campaign if some states charge taxes on prepared food and some don't, [...]

You can, if you change your prices in every state so that with added taxes, it adds up to $5 for the consumer. We don't have to accommodate our system of sales taxes to make it more convenient for national corporations to make $5 foot-long campaigns.

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