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   Lynnesbian :bune_ylw: (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 07:01:28 JST Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

   i've been noticing more websites not including GST in listed prices, which, to my understanding, is illegal unless you're advertising exclusively to other businesses:

   Businesses must display the total price of a product or service as a single figure. This price must be the minimum total cost – the lowest amount a customer could pay, including any taxes, duties and unavoidable or pre-selected extra fees.

   here are two websites i've seen doing this in the past week alone - red hat and patreon. patreon in particular is in no way aimed at business-to-business transactions.

   #australia

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     Lynnesbian :bune_ylw: (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 07:01:27 JST Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

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     i went to america once, and while i enjoyed the trip overall, i hated that every single time i bought something i was actually paying 10% more, or 8% more, or fucking 7.5% more or some shit.

     the one time -- the one time -- i remembered this was a thing while shopping over there, i googled the sales tax rate for the state i was in, and used my fucking phone calculator to work it out. i had the payment ready down to the cent, dimes and nickels and pennies and all. i was told that this was a museum gift shop, which was obviously tax exempt, and therefore i had wasted my time. at that point, i just gave up, and accepted that whenever i bought something, my $5.78 of items would actually be $6.24 or whatever.

     don't bring that shit to australia.

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     Lynnesbian :bune_ylw: (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 07:01:28 JST Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

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     this is absolute bullshit. it's one thing for Jerry's Crochet Patterns Dot Wordpress Dot Com to display prices without GST because jerry made a genuine mistake and has never dealt with the logistics of international sales before. i'm not mad at jerry for "US defaultism" or whatever.

     i AM mad at massive corporations who can't be fucked to add if (country == "AU) { price = price * 1.1 } to their shitty website. "oh but we're an american company, in america you don't need to include tax" i don't care. you're selling to australians, you're listing prices in australian dollars, you have a fucking ABN, you need to comply with australian price display laws.

     YOU CANNOT DISPLAY PRICES WITHOUT GST. you cannot have a page that says "this costs $20" and proceed to charge anything but $20. you cannot say "$5, plus GST" or "$8, plus local sales tax".