Re: taxes


to seiyuu@usagi.jrd.dec.com
from DamienRoc@aol.com
subject Re: taxes
date Fri, 1 Aug 1997 12:25:36 -0400 (EDT)
>>>The actual increas in the previous price is 1.9417%. (^_^;)
>>The US will only go down to 1/4% levels .. now thatis impressive
>
>Incorrect.
>
>The current tax rate in Pierce County (Washington state) is 8.4% (which is
>not evenly divisable by .25) except in some outlying areas (where it's still
>7.9%, IIRC.)
>
>Seattle (and most of King County) has an 8.6% sales tax.
>
>The state mandated tax is something like 6.9%.


Well, I guess got to get out more :-) Now that I think of it;
someone did tell me that Seattle had 8.6 .. I wonder how
they figure that out. I would guess  that it would have to be
on the stores total gross takes. Little hard to charge someone a 1/4
of a cent. Perhaps its just on a per purchase basis.
Doing it off the top of my head: 
to have a 1.9417%  be something other than 1.9% ; you would have to
buy something cost like 1000000 yen.. about the cost of that
digital camera hitoshi was telling me about

---> There isn't really a problem. Everything is rounded (up or down) to the
nearest cent. The only problem comes when you're trying to figure out the
tax. Back when it was 7.9%, you could generally guess at eight cents on the
dollar. Now that it's 8.4% around here... well, 8.5 cents is rather hard to
think about.

Damien Roc

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