Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sales taxes (Was: Why is the Amiga 3000 so damned expensive in Europe) Keywords: taxes Message-ID: <1990Jul24.134813.8606@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 24 Jul 90 13:48:13 GMT References: <665@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org> <34361@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: news@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Distribution: comp Organization: Columbia University Lines: 40 In article <34361@ut-emx.UUCP> lshaw@walt.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw) writes: >In article kk102029@tut.fi (Karsisto Konsta) writes: >> >>No you wouldn't. As far as I know prices in the US are always quoted >>without any sales taxes, because there are _no_sales_taxes_ in most of >>the states. >> >>Correct me if I'm wrong. > >You're wrong. Here in Texas, the sales tax is about 6% state, extra 2% city. >It ranges from about 4% (can't remember where) to around 15% (new york city). >BUT, if I order something from, say, Florida (another state), I don't have >to pay their sales tax, 'cause I don't live there. So, the way it works here >is it wouldn't matter (to you, since you don't live here) if we had a sales >tax of 100%, since you don't have to pay it. > >Prices are quoted without sales tax because (at mail order places) because >most people don't have to pay them, and because it makes everything look >cheaper. > >I hope I've cleared things up for everybody. Well, not quite. I don't know where the sales tax is 15%, but it certainly isn't New York City. Here we have 8 1/4% tax, 6% state and 2 1/4% local. The city is/was considering raising it 1/4%. >============================================================================ >"The machine minded material man Logan Shaw > desperately dreams of a brand new sedan. lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu > Wlll he expect long lasting gain ======================== > from a toy that will race then rust in the rain?" - elim Hall, Things Break -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu "If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'" -- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else