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		californical on July 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is It Time to Kill the Penny? Weird that people disagree with you -- try taking a 7% tax of $1.25. your total will be $1.3375 -> $1.34

lovegoblin on July 14, 2020 | [–]

Is it disagreement or just eye-rolling?

mgbmtl on July 14, 2020 | [–]

Fun in Quebec: a 14.975% tax rate¹. The tax can be rounded per line item or on the total.

¹ it was so that the effective tax rate remained the same when Quebec stopped taxing the federal tax, which was pretty annoying for software.

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