[muglo] Re: [muglo]<rant> VATs: was Re: USB 250-meg Zip with 10.3.9--Again!

On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>
> <rant>I don't understand why companies get hit with false advertising
> suits/charges when they advertise an item for "$40 after rebate" when,
> in fact they advertise the *before tax* purchase price, but then
> subtract the full *after tax* rebate to compute the "rebated" purchase
> price... that's false advertising

Just reluctance on the apart of the consumer to complain.

> ... of course, we're still so
> backwards in Canada that we haven't figured out that it's much more
> efficient to have taxes built into the prices rather than separate,
> thereby requiring a whole extra layer of retail bureaucracy (and, this
> is _not_ government imposed... there are stores which now have the
> taxes in their retail prices)... the collective drain on the economy
> is huge... all to satisfy a few tax payer assho... <ahem>
> nutcases.</rant>

I would much rather see the 'full' price as well.  I love watching 
parents explain to their kids that while that thingie is $9.95 they 
don't have enough with the $10 gran & gramps gave them because the 
taxes haven't been added in.  I have had overseas visitors who have 
found it rather annoying too!

On the flip side there is the whole 'hidden' tax debate.  I love 
explaining % of % - raising the GST by 1% doesn't sound like much BUT 
it is an almost 15% increase (14.2 but 15 is such a nice round number!) 
in the tax itself. On that flip side whether you pay a $1.07 vs $1.08 
the extra penny (dime or dollar) doesn't mean much to most people.  An 
extra $10 and up starts to have a more noticeable impact especially on 
lower incomes which then implies those pennies and dimes start to add 
up too. (Insert favourite folk wisdom here about pennies).

Now there's something to talk about, the penny - I vote we get rid of 
it and round every thing DOWN to the nearest nickel!

Martin

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