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How do they know how much tax to charge you when you buy? In that same way they know what price to show you.
by guappa 3y ago
How do they know how much tax to charge you when you buy?
In that same way they know what price to show you.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> How do they know how much tax to charge you when you buy? Did you miss the part about it being calculated in the cart? That’s after you’ve made the decision to purchase, a decision which presumably included the price. I would refuse to give every vendor my address just to see a price.
- pbhjpbhj 3y ago>I would absolutely refuse to give every vendor my address just to see a price. How does it work now? If you don't give your address, but the price depends on your address, how does the store know how much to charge you? If you don't have to give your ID then surely you just say you're from the lowest tax location?
- ffgjgf1 3y agoWhat would the ID change? It only really matters where the goods are delivered.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> If you don't give your address, but the price depends on your address, how does the store know how much to charge you? I don’t want to give my address to see the price. After I’ve decided to buy the thing, I’m okay disclosing who I am. But simply to see the price? Also, if I’m a retailer and people are giving me their address before I price them, on what planet am I not going to use that to help me price discriminate?
- guappa 3y agoYou don't need the address, you just need to know in which city they live, AT MOST. Taxes don't change every street.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Taxes don't change every street Ha. Oh boy. I remember when an engineer at a POS system start-up said something similar. It's like when someone decides they're going to roll their own time zone calculation. In case you're curious, yes, two people in the same city can be in different counties, different school districts, different water boards, et cetera. Each of those typically has taxing authority. And this is before we get into crap like urban enterprise zones [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Jersey_Urban_Enterprise_Zones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Jersey_Urban_Ente...
- astrange 3y agoPart of Valley Fair Mall in San Jose is actually in a different city (Santa Clara). Which I believe currently has a different minimum wage, and the stores in the rest of the mall don't price match it. Also, Apple Park is in Cupertino the city but not the school district.
- devilbunny 3y agoThey might. Cities can, in most states, cross county borders. Both counties and cities can have their own taxes. I've seen cases where a neighborhood was split. Two near-identical houses, but one had less than half the property tax of the one next to it.
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- bcrosby95 3y agoBelieving mailing address cities actually corresponds to a unit of government is one thing I learned is incorrect when I moved to the LA area. I live near a place called Westlake Village that straddles the LA County/Ventura County line. In LA County, Westlake Village is a city. In Ventura County, Westlake Village is a neighborhood within Thousand Oaks, and it has a different tax rate. But both mailing addresses use Westlake Village as the city. Similarly, I have friends that live in Newbury Park, and that's what is on his mailing address. But Newbury Park is just a neighborhood within Thousand Oaks.
- heimidal 3y agoTax depends on the location the item is shipped to.
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