Please people, remember to add in tax!

[BowserKoopa1]

For the record, I work in the state of Texas, and no, I don't know much about any of the taxes, just that they're different in other states.
To put it simply, the coupon generally erases the taxes, because without it, she would've payed $265.
I have had several customers today who do like to hold up lines by doing 2 seperate transactions so they can use both coupons, which in a way saves them a little money. I guess I can understand why they do that though.
I don't think the coupons are that great a deal anyway. Its just like another place I worked where they give you 10% off for siging up for a credit card. But all the 10% does is erase the 8% in taxes, so they'd actually wind up saving only 2%.

[Hobbs]

For the record, I work in the state of Texas, and no, I don't know much about any of the taxes, just that they're different in other states.
To put it simply, the coupon generally erases the taxes, because without it, she would've payed $265.
I have had several customers today who do like to hold up lines by doing 2 seperate transactions so they can use both coupons, which in a way saves them a little money. I guess I can understand why they do that though.
I don't think the coupons are that great a deal anyway. Its just like another place I worked where they give you 10% off for siging up for a credit card. But all the 10% does is erase the 8% in taxes, so they'd actually wind up saving only 2%.

Here in San Antone, sales tax is 8.125%, but within the city limits are smaller cities, Balcones Hgts, Castle Hills, Leon Valley etc. There are different taxes there as well. My bro worked @ the Target in Balcones, and the tax there is 8.225 or some crap, so he'd occassionally get the tax-SC.

Also, we have bases where, if you can get on, you can buy @ the BX/PX, which is tax-free.

[PepperElf]

Hmm, incidently the first coupon is a better deal since you're saving up to 20% so long as you're under $100 while the second one only saves 10% and goes down from there.

I spend too much time playing with fractions and percentages.

that's what i was thinking too.
It's cheaper to use the lower coupon, assuming you can use multiple copies for multiple transactions.

but yeah... death and taxes!

[Rine]

Yeah, people forget about tax all the time...the county that I work in has a higher tax than the one I live in and residents from that county sometimes forget that the tax is a little bit higher and I get questioned about it. I have to give mini-math lessons frequently to customers who think I'm ripping them off.

Also some people think that there is no tax on anything because food is not taxed.

[Digitalpotato]

I get this all the time at Subway. With sales tax the $5 footlong comes up to $5.34 so we get all kinds of people saying "WTF man that's not five dollars!"

And recently I had this exchange...

SC: Hey that's supposed to be $5!
Me: Sorry, that's $5 without Sales Tax.
SC: But I'm not a citizen of this country I don't pay taxes! (NOTE: he is also a college student...)
Me: Then how're you paying for this with a student ID card?