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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1098715, member: 27832&quot;]I was unclear in my previous post, coleguy, and I may be misunderstanding the point you&#039;re trying to make.</p><p><br /></p><p>It <i>sounds</i> like you&#039;re saying that when I buy (say) ten items, each item gets taxed individually, <i>each item&#039;s tax gets rounded up individually</i>, and then those rounded taxes get added up. I&#039;m saying that that isn&#039;t true, at least not if you buy everything in one transaction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say I buy twenty candies at five cents each. Sales tax here is 7.75%.</p><p><br /></p><p>Exact sales tax on each candy would be 0.3875 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the retailer rounded up each item&#039;s tax individually, I&#039;d be charged twenty cents for tax.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the retailer fairly rounded each item&#039;s tax individually, I&#039;d be charged zero cents for tax.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not. I&#039;m charged 7.75 cents for tax, rounded up to 8 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>If that really bugged me, I could instead buy 19 candies, and be charged 7.3625 cents for tax, rounded down to 7 cents. Stick it to the man!</p><p><br /></p><p>But, given the largely random way in which I group my grocery purchases, I&#039;m willing to bet that my rounding gains and losses over the course of a year cancel to within much less than a dollar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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