iPhone 14: Cheapest Country to Buy in 37 Countries

Are you sure that you compare final price in all the countries?

For example in the USA the price probably does not have sales tax, but in the European countries the price will most likely include VAT.

Looking at the iPhone Pro, they somehow listed the US twice, with what I assume is an arbitrarily added sales tax:

United States US$999.00

Japan US$1,039.46

Hong Kong US$1,095.50

United States US$1,113.88

Tourists* in Japan can shop tax free (*yes I know)

Quite a lot of this has to do with VAT which is always advertised as part of the price. In most of these countries I know they have VAT rates over 20%. In the US, sales tax is between 0 and 7.25 percent and is never advertised as part of the price.

The US pays for this lack of VAT in other ways, either as taxes or in the services the government doesn’t provide.

It’s easy to forget all this while having iPhone sticker shock, but it’s rather brilliant on the part of the governments since everyone is pissed at Apple for overcharging, not thinking about whether VAT is a good idea.

Because of the ongoing inflation of the Turkish Lira, there's a huge margin added to imported products