I know the price is $600 but what is it full in tax so I know exactly how much this is gonna shred my wallet ill be camping hurray no sleep I live in NEW YORK in Westchester County
I don't know about New York, but in PA it's 6%, so it would be $636 total for the console. Hmm looks like your area is 7.38% so it would be $644.28
It's say from $636-$650, but I can't be too sure. If I were you, I'd take at least $700 to be on the safe side.
Just find out your local sales tax rate, probally 6-7%, then multiplly 600 by 1 plus the % with the decimal shifted over two places Example, with 6.25% sales tax 6.25, move decimal left two spots to get .0625 then add 1 to get 1.0625 Now multiply 600 to get 637.50
Now this is why I don't like the tax system you have in the states. They tell you something is 600 USD but it isn't because you've got to add tax ! So glad Japan changed a few years back. It probably won't bother you guys from the US but when you are from Europe it does seem silly to say something is one price when it's not. Yakumo
The reason that the tax is not included in the price shown to the consumer , is to maximize profit for the venture. If a given price of an item is 600 dollars, if a part of that money was tax, the retailer would only get 500-something, and not the whole 600 (like it happens in every civilized country around the world, and recently in japan!)
So basically it helps out the retailer and fucks over the consumer. The consumer is dumb enough to pay that price because he doesn't consider that tax isn't included, and thus the retailer can get away with charging more (even to the people who aren't that dumb) because they know people will buy it as if it did include tax. Do I understand this correctly?
Nah, it always says "Plus tax" in teeny-tiny letters next to the adverstised price. It's not so bad acutally, but it can get a bit confusing at times. All the states have different tax laws which can get strange sometimes. You can go to army bases and buy stuff without any taxes, or Indian reservations (if you live near one.) Plus no food items are taxed, like at resturants when you get it to go. But for some reason they do tax you if you decide to eat it there. Plus the tax laws seem to change every single year so some things you could deduct from your income taxes last year you may not be able to this year and vice versa.
Because Tax is different from county to county from state to state. Just be glad happy you don't also pay state income tax...
Everyone here knows prices don't include tax though, it's not like we see a price and go "oh cool! $600" but then the register dings up and we slap our foreheads and go "doh!" Well I do, but I am from the UK. You get used to it though.
:nod: Nothing more unfuriating when you Q up with $20 for something that is £19.99 on the sticker and "hi $21.04 please" Drives you up the wall as well as the poor schmuck standing behind you "bloody tourists"
wow, I'd be confused, didn't know it was tax-excluded in the US...good for us we have the tax included as well...and 3% more next year -_-
It's really not that hard. I mean we're pretty much taught at an early age when we learn how money works (6-7 ys/old) that you have to factor in sales tax. Usually when one moves to a new area, they learn what the tax is really quickly and can usually roughly calculate it in there head. I work in a liquor store and it actually throws everybody off when I ring them up and they find out that there is no sales tax for alchohol in our county. Not really. Everyday I watch people who don't live around here hand me the bills and then go searching through their pockets/purse and pulling out change only to find out that whats priced on the label is all they have to pay. Like I say, its ingrained to us at an early age, nobody thinks they are getting getting screwed over (thats what federal tax is for).
