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**Uplillacype** · 03-12-2008, 07:17 PM

So are all prices over there displayed with taxes already added? Over here is it the exact opposite. Everything is listed pre-tax(save for some things like gas, some food stuffs and the like) so we all become quite good at decimal multiplication (price*1.13 in my case ).

Taxes are always included in prices everywhere. Grocery stores, tech stores, bills from energy or telephone companies...

I found at always very confusing that you have to do the math on the tax yourself when you buy something in the US. I always thought "wow, thats so freakin cheap" and in the end I payed a price that I could have found here too.

03-12-2008, 07:17 PM	#19
Uplillacype Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 492 Senior Member	So are all prices over there displayed with taxes already added? Over here is it the exact opposite. Everything is listed pre-tax(save for some things like gas, some food stuffs and the like) so we all become quite good at decimal multiplication (price*1.13 in my case ). Taxes are always included in prices everywhere. Grocery stores, tech stores, bills from energy or telephone companies... I found at always very confusing that you have to do the math on the tax yourself when you buy something in the US. I always thought "wow, thats so freakin cheap" and in the end I payed a price that I could have found here too.
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