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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26054863, member: 27832&quot;]In our town it&#039;s 7.5%. So if those evil, greedy corporate overlords kept trying to <i>deceive</i> us by pricing something at 99 cents when it <i>really</i> would get rounded to $1.00 -- well, if I bought that item, sales tax on it would be 7.425 cents, making my total $1.06425, which would get rounded <i>down</i> to $1.05. Joke&#039;s on them!</p><p><br /></p><p>Some say &quot;well the stores will always round up&quot;. They don&#039;t! Next time you see something listed at 3/$1.00 -- sorry, forgot what century I&#039;m in, 3/$10.00 -- look closely at how things ring up. One item comes up at $3.33, two at $6.67, three at $10.00. And tax is applied <i>at the end</i>, on your order <i>total</i>, not on each individual item. If a store tried to squeeze out extra profit by always rounding up, they&#039;d be pilloried on social media.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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