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Japan has the exact same sales tax rate(s) across the entire country, and it rarely changes. In the US, we have thousands of different rates and they change mu
by ensignavenger 2y ago
Japan has the exact same sales tax rate(s) across the entire country, and it rarely changes. In the US, we have thousands of different rates and they change multiple times per year.
Also, while it is the norm in Japan to include the tax, there are some exceptions.
(Japan has 2 rates, 8% for certain items like food, and 10% for everything else).
- andreareina 2y agoBrick and mortar stores know exactly how much tax they have to pay, yet they don't show an all-inclusive price. It's clearly not a case of online retailers just not showing the tax because it's difficult. If they wanted to they could let you give your post code before checking out, and query the same database to show the post-tax price for everything.
- ensignavenger 2y agoReally, you expect them to go through every item in the store, multiple times per year, and update the price tags?
- celegans25 2y agoWith price increases over the last couple of years from inflation, retailers have shown they are more than capable of doing so already. So yes
- ensignavenger 2y agoPrice increases don't hit every item all at once.
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- mazugrin2 2y agoAside from silly "sales-tax-holidays" I've never heard of the sales tax rates changing so frequently. I'm curious to know where this is happening "multiple times per year". Here in MA it's been the same rate for 15 years. And for the sales-tax-holiday situation can't a shop just say something like "everything will have x% taken off at the register" just like they would during a typical "10% off all items" type of sale?
- ensignavenger 2y agoIf MA has a single rate across the entire state that hasn't changed in 15 users, they are very different from how most other states operate.
- asciimov 2y agoHere in Texas you will nearly always be paying the maximum 8.25%, its been that way for 30+ years.
- entropicdrifter 2y agoSame here in PA. 6% for basically everything besides non-prepared food and a couple other categories which are tax exempt
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- asciimov 2y agoAround me most stores change their price tags weekly, if not more often. They either have a sheet with new tags or a small printer and scanner and they swap out the tags on the shelf.
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- mrguyorama 2y agoWhat do you think all the people collecting a paycheck in a store do? Stand around and look pretty? Have you ever heard the term "Fronting"? In most stores, employees are required to individually ensure each and every item on the shelf is organized and pulled to the front for optimum display. They do this sometimes multiple times a day. In busier stores, you will have to restock high volume items multiple times per day. The technology for digital pricetags has been cheaply available since the first kindle in the late 2000s. Most companies have avoided spending the money on buying them because the cost of labor in America is cheap enough that you can just have the normal employees do it every day. Digital pricetags are only now becoming common. Mostly because store companies are trying to figure out a way to charge you a personalized price that takes as much of your money as possible.
- sangnoir 2y ago> In the US, we have thousands of different rates and they change multiple times per year. Yet at any given moment, every proprietor is miraculously able calculate the taxes due at the point of sale. The variety of tax regimes, and the fact that the amounts change doesn't impact the ability to calculate the final amount due.
- rascul 2y ago> In the US, we have thousands of different rates and they change multiple times per year. Where in the US do the sales tax rates change so frequently? I've never seen this.
- n144q 2y agoMy guess is that the comment means there is always some minor tweaks to tax laws, so that tax on certain products could change, and that may happen a few times a year. I don't think it means sales tax rate changes on all products a few times a year. There is a caveat -- if you count the "sales tax holidays" in various US states, it means in those places, tax rates for some products change at least twice a year -- from 7% to 0% then back to 7%, for example.
- mFixman 2y agoThat's a good reason to include the tax in the price in the US. How would consumers know how much they will pay otherwise?