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Ok this is going to sound stupid but bear with me.
I haven't been down to the US is quite some time so I can't remember if your sales tax system is exactly the same as ours. I work in retail here in Canada (7-11 Assistant Manager) and every time I get a tourist from overseas they are confused by out tax system. When I mean overseas though I mean England where they have the VAT and other countries that have a similar sales tax system.
Here sales tax is added on after the sticker price. In other words if you go into a store and see a $2 chocolate bar you won't be paying 2 bucks at the register. Instead you will be paying 2*(the sales tax). So if you have 10 or 14% sales tax you would be paying 2.20 or 2.28. Isn't this the same in the US (of course your sales tax tends to be lower but isn't the system the same?)
Edit: Some info on Canada's Tax system (Wiki)
Actually looking at that the the combined total tax burden on Canadians is not THAT much higher than for the US on average, see chart at bottom. Interesting.
I haven't been down to the US is quite some time so I can't remember if your sales tax system is exactly the same as ours. I work in retail here in Canada (7-11 Assistant Manager) and every time I get a tourist from overseas they are confused by out tax system. When I mean overseas though I mean England where they have the VAT and other countries that have a similar sales tax system.
Here sales tax is added on after the sticker price. In other words if you go into a store and see a $2 chocolate bar you won't be paying 2 bucks at the register. Instead you will be paying 2*(the sales tax). So if you have 10 or 14% sales tax you would be paying 2.20 or 2.28. Isn't this the same in the US (of course your sales tax tends to be lower but isn't the system the same?)
Edit: Some info on Canada's Tax system (Wiki)
Actually looking at that the the combined total tax burden on Canadians is not THAT much higher than for the US on average, see chart at bottom. Interesting.