I was looking at a grocery receipt, and there are three different tax rates depending on the items. The receipt doesn’t even specify which items are taxed at which rate - just the total at each percentage.
I understand the goal of lower or higher taxes on groceries is to incentivize purchasing healthier options over more processed foods, but does it really affect purchasing decisions when the final price of the items is opaque to the consumer?
Yeah, I was talking about local stores mainly. Online it’s understandable as every state has its own view on taxes, same as each state in EU (we’re not federation though).
Even then the website can ask where are ye from and then display the appropriate prices if they really wanted.
They can do that for delivery costs, why not for taxes
Yeah same in Europe with different VAT rates between the countries, select where you’re from and shops will show price including local VAT which the shop will take care off