-> yup! exactly... where i am, one pays (IIRC) 3% or 7% depending on
-> if they are in the city or not... the county gets 3% and the city 
-> gets 4%... since the city is in the county, the county gets their's 
-> also so you pay both 3% and 4% when you purchase "standard" 
-> materials in the city... "standard" being most things other than 
-> food and fuel... there's a 1% or 2% food tax... i don't every really 
-> fret about it as i just pay what the clerks tell me the total is but
-> the receipts do carry the breakdown... 
   
 DW> What bugs me is that it's legal, here, for stores to put price-tags
 DW> on  goods which may or may not include the sales tax. If the tax is
 DW> included, then you pay what's on the tag. If not, you find yourself
 DW> having to pay more than is on the tag. The tags carry, in tiny
 DW> print,  something like "tax included", or "plus
applicable taxes",
 DW> but you  have to look hard to see it. Like most people, I prefer
 DW> the tax to be  included, but stores prefer the other, since it
 DW> makes prices look less.    
 DW> Oh well... 

i hear ya... for the most part that i'm aware of, here in the US, the tags
do not include the taxes... this is one reason why i generally round up to
the next dollar when shopping and tallying what i've spent...

)\/(ark