Adding taxes on at the end is 'junk fees' in this sense and should also be banned. Here's the principle: The price on the sticker (or menu, or display) is the

Adding taxes on at the end is 'junk fees' in this sense and should also be banned. Here's the principle: The price on the sticker (or menu, or display) is the price you pay. Period. Additional fees or calculations on above simple summation of the items ordered is anti-consumer. You're the business, calculate the total up front and don't make me memorize the tax rate in every locality and do a bunch of multiplications in my head while I'm browsing your store. If I were cynical I'd say this whole charade is intentionally designed to exhaust the customer with math to make them give up and not think about the price until they're at the register and have to face the embarrassment of asking to take things off. Making the real price opaque is the point. It's gross even if it doesn't work 100% of customers. There's probably even a case to be made that this disproportionately disadvantages people with mental disabilities. And don't bother making some stupid argument about adding up fractional pennies. If you need more decimal places then use them, and the customer will decide up front whether it's reasonable to make them calculate 3-4 decimal places for the product you're selling. They don't do this nonsense in Europe. Taxes are pre-calculated on every item, so you can walk through the isles of the grocery store picking up items simply adding up the sticker price and know that the cash in your pocket will be enough to pay the total. Why we tolerate calculating tax at the end of a transaction is crazy.