From my experience around the US it's not only taxes, it is taxes, "service fees", tipping, some other junk fee with another name that is not "service fee", so

From my experience around the US it's not only taxes, it is taxes, "service fees", tipping, some other junk fee with another name that is not "service fee", so on and so forth. You check out from a hotel not knowing what kind of fee they will be adding, you go into a restaurant not knowing how much the food will actually cost. Figures for prices don't mean anything until you are on the process of paying and figure out all the extras that will be added after the fact. Worse as a non-local since you aren't accustomed to all the ways a service can charge you extras to be prepared for it. It's absolutely irritating, almost everything feels like a bait and switch.