Those sites are guessing… If your site is in the US, for example, you may guess because they’re less strict. But if your site is in the EU, you better do it right
I’m working on a pricing page and have run into that issue. Stripe calculates taxes only at checkout. I could fetch the tax amount through their API, but displaying it for every user on the pricing page would eventually hit the API rate limits.
and even so why would you need to do it for every customer? fetch the country rate, cache it for the country and then show it on the pricing page for the user based on ip.
I'm not from the US, but I'm used to seeing a different price at checkout. For instance, nearly every food-delivery app I've used in Europe and the Middle East shows the delivery and service fees only when you reach the checkout.
if im adding prepaid credits i dont see it.. it only shows on the final sub page. plus i shouldnt need to guess. they have my location. they know its 20% in the uk. this is just lazy.
and in the eu likely violates eu law as all prices to consumers must be shown tax inclusive.
USA is very used to many things just being "around" that price. idk. i don't even have feelings about it anymore, because it is the only way buying shit has ever worked for me. it'd be nice if we used whole numbers? but.... idk, it works?
if i goto a store in almost every country in the world its the exact price on the sticker. if it charges at a higher price you'd get a full refund. this whole sales tax on top bullshit happens because the us is not united. every fucking state has a different rate.
Tbh even with every state having a different rate... It isn't rocket science for the stores to add tax to it... Some of the states are bigger than countries even...
It's just somehow America being America and different again
no but by saying that you are normalising it.. 175 of the 193 countries in the UN have some kind of VAT. the US and canada are the only two that show tax exempt pricing.
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my god. what is with people like you that just wanna be right even though they have no clue what they’re talking about.
guessing things and knowing things are very different.
you don’t need to do that at all.
and in the eu likely violates eu law as all prices to consumers must be shown tax inclusive.
yeah i’m pretty sure that’s not allowed. weird.
It's just somehow America being America and different again