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I have mixed feelings about this one since it can help reminding people how much of their purchasing power is being extracted from the state. That being said, i

• YeBanKo 3y ago
  If it must be included in the price, business will go out of the way to demonstrate the part of the price a tax is responsible for. Pretty much everywhere where it’s the case, somewhere on the page with price there is a note explaining that tax is included.
• hnbad 3y ago
  In Germany all listed prices everywhere (except in strict b2b spaces) include VAT. On invoices and bills prices are usually listed as both "raw", VAT and combined, often per item. The only exception is deposit on packaging (cans, bottles and bottle crates) where the deposit is always listed separately on price tags and listed as a separate item on the bill. But these deposits are standardized by law and can be refunded at any place that sells these goods. This doesn't seem to have any particular effect (tho Germans are notoriously uninterested in political activism) except that any person on the street can likely tell you exactly what the VAT rate is (it's currently 19% on most goods, 7% on some specific items and 0% on a much smaller set of items -- most people likely won't know specifically which items are in those two categories tho as it's somewhat arbitrary thanks to lobbying). Shops generally don't break out what exactly goes into the "raw" price tho as that's usually not in the brand's best interest (because it spells out their profit margin, which may be surprisingly high).