> I also don't understand the US practice of not including relevant sales tax charges in the cost of a good. The idea is that if it's just baked into the price

> I also don't understand the US practice of not including relevant sales tax charges in the cost of a good. The idea is that if it's just baked into the price, customers will ignore it but if it's applied separately customers will consciously recognize the amount of money the government is taking from them and presumably apply pressure not to increase that amount.