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Ashen.2907:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Ashen.2907:

An individual company has no control over state or local sales taxes so expecting them to be responsible for informing the citizens who chose those taxes seems silly to me. “I voted for an 11% sales tax rate but am unwilling to figure out what that means so someone else who had no say in it should be expected to do my math for me.”

Expecting a business to foot the cost of changing price tags every time the local government or citizens decide to change tax rates is outright ludicrous (IMO).

You didn’t say what the alternative should be? Who pays for it then? Does the government raise taxes to pay for businesses cost of changing price tags?

Currently the company pays for its own tags (but certainly incorporates costs into its pricing model) because it decides when it is going to change them. If voters decide to require use government authority to force a private company to do their thinking for them then the voters should foot the bill.

Then they will need a way to make sure that businesses aren’t padding the bill to the government and claiming that it costs more than it does, which would drive taxes up higher to either pay for the padded claims or pay for putting in a regulatory institution which investigates enough claims to keep the businesses reasonably honest.

All of which comes back to the idea that voters shouldn’t expect others, non governmental entities, to be required to do their math for them. The merchant lists what THEY are charging for an item.

Ashen.2907:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Ashen.2907:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Ashen.2907:

An individual company has no control over state or local sales taxes so expecting them to be responsible for informing the citizens who chose those taxes seems silly to me. “I voted for an 11% sales tax rate but am unwilling to figure out what that means so someone else who had no say in it should be expected to do my math for me.”

Expecting a business to foot the cost of changing price tags every time the local government or citizens decide to change tax rates is outright ludicrous (IMO).

You didn’t say what the alternative should be? Who pays for it then? Does the government raise taxes to pay for businesses cost of changing price tags?

Currently the company pays for its own tags (but certainly incorporates costs into its pricing model) because it decides when it is going to change them. If voters decide to require use government authority to force a private company to do their thinking for them then the voters should foot the bill.

Then they will need a way to make sure that businesses aren’t padding the bill to the government and claiming that it costs more than it does, which would drive taxes up higher to either pay for the padded claims or pay for putting in a regulatory institution which investigates enough claims to keep the businesses reasonably honest.

All of which comes back to the idea that voters shouldn’t expect others, non governmental entities, to be required to do their math for them. The merchant lists what THEY are charging for an item.

I’m from the US where that’s how it’s done, but a good part of the works has this system. Maybe they can say if their government pay for merchants to change the item tickets.

At any rate it’s standard for the governments not to pay for the businesses increased cost in the US as that would increase taxes too much. There is no incentive for a government to increase taxes to pay for this and then the increased taxes to monitor it to make sure the businesses don’t pad their charges to the government.

Governments routinely impose costs, either on businesses or individuals. They can’t impose a cost and then turn around and pay for all the costs they impose. Taxes would be sky high to pay for the costs and then the monitoring to make sure that the paperwork from the businesses to recover their costs. What you suggest is not reasonable, that only one cost of all the costs that government imposes be paid for by the government. Why should that particular cost be paid for and not all the others? What makes that one so special that it gets special consideration?