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Do they really change more often than regular price changes? And even if, would it be that much of an issue? As in: it works fine in the rest of the world.
by consp 3y ago
Do they really change more often than regular price changes? And even if, would it be that much of an issue? As in: it works fine in the rest of the world.
- tzs 3y agoHow often do sales tax/VAT change in the rest of the world? I know it isn't often in Europe because I maintain the VAT tables at work for our Europe sales so have to deal with updating when it changes. We sell in 28 countries there, each with its own independent VAT, and since 2015 there have only been around 8 changes among all 28. Also in Europe VAT is per country. In the US sales tax at a given location is the sum of state sales tax, county sales tax, city sales tax, and possibly even special tax district sales taxes. The state rate usually doesn't change often, although it isn't as stable as Europe VAT rates. County and city rates aren't as stable, and there usually isn't coordination between the changes so if the state, county, and city are all going to raise rates in the next year they could easily end up each doing so in a different quarter.