• skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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    24 hours ago

    It’s a tax on every stage of the process, nobody “switched to it”. All for the government, that didn’t contribute to the process. That doesn’t make a train stop at my mom’s home town anymore even though their country is smaller than my state but has all the tax money. Including price in price is nothing. The SIZE is the important part. I balked at 9% sales tax in my state, used to be 6%. Yours is amplified 20% times 5. Design, execution, physical build, assembly, final product. That’s crazy.

    And why ever say “we switched to VAT”. It’s just a name. Tax, VAT, Tariff. All words. You’re probably a bot anyway.

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      23 hours ago

      I balled at 9% sales tax… Yours is amplified 20%, times 5… It’s just a name.

      This shows deep misunderstanding in what VAT is and how it works. It’s not “a flat out 20% sales tax with a different name”. The concept is different. But I do not have neither time or energy to argue on the internet.

      And why ever day "we switched to VAT’

      Because we used to have sales tax.

      You’re probably a bot anyway.

      Gee. Thanks?