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From: absary@watdragon.UUCP
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: whether to show the retail sales tax
Message-ID: <2428@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Mar-87 00:53:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 10 00:53:43 1987
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Reply-To: absary@watdragon.UUCP (Al Sary)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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>It's not a business decision at all in any jurisdiction I know of.
>Whether the sales tax is to be shown separately (as with Ontario
>sales tax and federal sales tax on printing) or is to be built into
>the price the customer sees (as with federal sales tax on most
>consumer items) is determined by law, not by the individual business.

There must be a decision involved in making the law one way or
the other.