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In most EU countries they do, it's included in the final price. To find out whether the VAT money goes to the state as VAT or gets "forgotten" in the merchant'
by tomcooks 7y ago
In most EU countries they do, it's included in the final price.
To find out whether the VAT money goes to the state as VAT or gets "forgotten" in the merchant's pockets is left to the student as extracurricular work.
- chrisseaton 7y agoHave you seriously never had anyone offer you a 'discount' for a cash payment? Why do you think they're doing that?
- icebraining 7y agoI live in a southern EU country, and that's very rare here, in my experience. The only cases I can think of in the last decade were home repair people. Even car mechanics stopped doing that.
- chrisseaton 7y agoThis article is about how evading tax is not very rare in places like Greece.
- tomcooks 7y agoWhen under the table payments are the norm obviously no one would give you an incentive. I would agree with you in a place where everything is cleared in books, like the stereotypical northern Europe.