• BiNonBi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Unified marketing within a chain. McDonald’s and the like can advertise their $5 special nation wide and not have to worry about every locale’s specific tax.

    We also have a metric shit tons of tax jurisdictions. Every state, county, city and special district can add their own tax. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are over 100,000 tax jurisdictions in the US. The people who set the price for a specific good don’t have to worry about tax cutting into the margin. That’s saved for someone else, usually a firm who specializes in tax calculations, at the point of sales.

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      1 year ago

      Just to add on to this, for those who want to understand just how dumb and minute it is, I have different sales tax rates in different parts of my city. 🙃