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Is it so complicated that only Europeans can do it; Americans are too unintelligent to match?

• crazygringo 3y ago
  Please stop being rude and chauvinistic. If European countries chose to have VAT that varied geographically within a country, they wouldn't be able to build it into the price either. Why you think it has anything to do with "national intelligence" is quite beyond me.
  • buildbot 3y ago
    Well…they do… https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/value-added-tax-2023-vat-rates-europe/ https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/value-added-tax-2023-v...
    • crazygringo 3y ago
      No they don't. That clearly shows rates varying between countries. Not within a country. Which is fine, because prices are generally advertised within a country, not Europe-wide.
    • vel0city 3y ago
      You're showing tax variations across countries. I see tax variations within a couple of miles!
  • hotpotamus 3y ago
    I'm curious where you have ever seen a national advertisement for a hotel room that includes a price; it is not something I've observed but perhaps my chauvinism has blinded me. That said, do you think that a hotel company is able to calculate the price of a room when I go onto their online portal and request a price for a particular location and date?
    • ghaff 3y ago
      The usual strategy is to nationally advertise "as low as" some base $$ amount. And then you go into the online portal and come up with an actual price for an actual date that (hopefully) includes all taxes and fees--and is probably a fair bit more.
  • Yeul 3y ago
    Perhaps the Americans chose poorly.