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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Take sales tax in Massachusetts.
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No, don't.
I give up, you are unwilling or unable to be taught.
VAT is not the sale as sales tax.
With sales tax you start with a product price and add on the tax to come up with a sales price.
With VAT the sales price is always the same, but a differing level of the money received is paid in tax.
£3.99 is £3.99, no matter how many times you try to say it isn't.
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In the UK before the VAT removal from eBooks, £3.99 includes VAT. When VAT is removed, the price should then be £3.32. But because it's £3.99, that means the price was increased. How can you say the price was not increased? It clearly was.
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I'm not sure you know what the word price means.
The money paid by the customer to the shop (the price, in countries with VAT) is the same before and after the VAT change. What has changed is what happens to the money afterwards.
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You have an eBook price of £3.99 with VAT. When you remove VAT, the price should then be £3.32. So if the price with and without VAT is £3.99, the price did increase. At £3.99, the publisher has raised the price.
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