Agreed.

Typical rump ranger stuff from the Japanese exchequer. Putting the tax 
into the manga price hides the true cost of taxation and makes the 
average salaryman more amenable to tax increases down the road.

Be Seeing You,

Chris
On Friday, August 20, 2004, at 05:01 PM, AstroNerdBoy wrote:

>>> Also, when I ordered the calendar it was only ¥2381.  Why it was
>>> cheaper, I couldn't tell you.
>>
>> A new law is in effect starting 2004.04.01 in Japan that all
>> list price must have already included the 5% Sales Tax.
>>
>
> That's evil.  The Japanese government is trying to disguise how much 
> tax they are collecting by making merchants display the price with > tax.
>
> Still, that's interesting to know.  I hadn't paid attention to whether 
> or not the list price had dropped 5% or not on my recent purchase of 
> the "Shin Tenchi Muyo!" novels because shipping charges are so 
> expensive.
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