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EU governments sure do love their taxes.
Hell, yeah! And I’m happy about it. High taxes but a lot of bang for the buck.
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US states sure do love theirs! down to every damn municipality. I hope Volcker will prevail and US will get VAT finally.
Sales tax in my municipality is less than half of UK's VAT, and food and clothing are exempt from it. You're right, I sure do love it.
Please educate yourself ;)
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Not in the UK.
well, judging from what some UK politicians are saying, UK will soon be even less part of EU than it sort of is now.
People in Europe usually have the VAT included in the advertised price, so I can see how people would be getting their hopes up when seeing the american prices.
this absolutely freaks us out in US - that we never see actual prices we're supposed to pay, only share of what seller is supposed to get (before paying her taxes).
Additionally, sales taxes vary widely state-to-state, so for an that has the same MSRP everywhere in the US, it seems to make sense not to advertise actual tax amount.
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besides, meddling in politics of foreign state... not very smart thing to do for a CEO
Telling people why a product is more expensive (or, seems more expensive) is not "meddling in politics". He either tells them the reason, or he ignores the email. I'd prefer the former, personally.
Some Apple apologists need to get out of Reality Distortion Field.
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Sales tax in my municipality is less than half of UK's VAT, and food and clothing are exempt from it. You're right, I sure do love it.
Food and childrens clothing are also exempt from UK VAT.
EU governments sure do love their taxes.
US states sure do love theirs! down to every damn municipality. I hope Volcker will prevail and US will get VAT finally.
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Telling people why a product is more expensive (or, seems more expensive) is not "meddling in politics". He either tells them the reason, or he ignores the email. I'd prefer the former, personally.
"Blame your government" - that's not meddling in foreign politics? Some Apple apologists need to get out of Reality Distortion Field.
If Apple equalized the price in Germany then they would actually be selling in Germany for less than the rest of the EU... They don't see a pfennig of that tax.
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Not in the UK.
well, judging from what some UK politicians are saying, UK will soon be even less part of EU than it sort of is now.
David Cameron of the Tories stated there would be no _further_ "giving up powers to Brussels". The other two stated that they wanted to work with Europe.
This results in no change by my reckoning.