Yes and no for me... with each city in our (US) state allowed to add some percentage points to the sales tax, it would be difficult for a store to include the sales tax... but I have shopped in Europe and very much like that the price in the store is what I pay at the register. In addition, some states charge "sales tax" on food and others don't... when I was growing up, we lived right along a state border; one charged sales tax on food and one didn't. With a larger family, my mother absolutely did the bulk of her shopping in the state that didn't tax food. While I would prefer a consumption tax over an income tax, as things stand now, I don't want a national sales tax and think that we'll just have to muddle along as we are.
However, I am absolutely appalled by places (usually internet or mail-order) that charge "shipping and handling", and use this to increase the price. I've paid $5.95 for "shipping and handling", only to find that the shipping costs were actually something like $2.40. I assume that "handling" is pure profit, and really should be part of the price. I understand that shipping varies by which state the merchandise is destined for, but I would think a seller could come up with a reasonable average shipping cost and just give me the price. I would like a slight variation of your idea -- all products should be what the seller gets; their product should include fees and shipping and handling costs. However, taxes are a different matter. Hotels have special hotel taxes in nearly every city, but these, I assume, differ. I don't mind the taxes being spelled out separately, because these are mandated by government, with none of the funds going to the hotel. On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 2:38 PM Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2022-10-17 09:53, gnuc...@boeziek.nl wrote: > > I'll mention in passing that I _wish_ it were compulsory here to > advertise the actual total price including sales tax and other taxes. > That is usual for gasoline (petrol) here in the US, but as industry > practice rather than by regulation. However, just about every other > product is advertised with a base price excluding sales tax. To make it > worse, many products -- air fares, hotel rates, and cable, Internet, and > telephone, to name just a few -- advertise an attractive low price but > then charge "fees" that add a substantial increment to the advertised > price. Such deceptive practice is unfortunately quite legal here in > California, and in every other state as far as I'm aware. > > Stan Brown > Tehachapi, CA, USA > https://BrownMath.com > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
