Try paying 13%

Originally posted by Gamerdude535:

This shouldn't be several more dollars in sales tax.

If you know how to use math then you would know that it is correct, as the sale tax in your state seems to be around 9-10%.

You can always complain to your Gouverneurs and so that they should make it law that all taxes need to be already added to the displayed price for a product.

Originally posted by Gamerdude535:

So I have 60.47 on my wallet and go to preorder FFT the Ivalice Chronicles Deluxe Edition and it goes and tells me I still need $6.12 for it. What gives??? This shouldn't be several more dollars in sales tax. I love my town but I fricken hate this state's politics man

Well, 10% of $59.99 is $6.00 (rounded up to nearest penny). So it sounds like sales tax in your area is a little bit above 10%, that's not unheard of.

Local sales taxes vary by municipality and can be as high as 11% when combined with the state rate. For example, the combined sales tax rate in Chicago is 10.25%.

Originally posted by Gamerdude535:

So I have 60.47 on my wallet and go to preorder FFT the Ivalice Chronicles Deluxe Edition and it goes and tells me I still need $6.12 for it. What gives??? This shouldn't be several more dollars in sales tax. I love my town but I fricken hate this state's politics man

What should the sales tax be. It sounds like you're claiming Valve is miscalculating it, or something. So would you care to show your math? Or are you just complaining because of the inconvenience of not having any external payment methods to cover the difference?

Have you not heard about the two certainties in life? Death and taxes?

Hmm, I'm starting to feel lucky that mine is just 6% state + 1% county.


But yeah, we've been paying sales taxes on Steam for years now, this shouldn't be a surprise to you.

Blame Cook county, it is what everyone else does who lives in that state.

Civilization costs money, so taxes. Sales taxes are regressive taxes that disproportionately tax lower income people. More taxes on billionaires and millionaires would help that in a world governed by reason. But, that doesn't seem to be the world we live in.

*Laughs in Montanan*

Imagine if the price you saw for something was the price you pay... craaazy

Originally posted by Drutt:

Imagine if the price you saw for something was the price you pay... craaazy

Imagine driving on the same side of the road as most other developed nations....

There's nothing wrong with alternate implementations of a thing, I know taxes not being part of the price sounds weird and awful to you, but for people who are used to it being charged at checkout, it's not confusing or difficult.

Heck in Japan, they do it both ways, it's madness, but it works for them. They've built a whole thriving civilization even though they do things differently than what you're used to. Craaaazy.

We live in a modern, free world.

* Move to another, better state.
* Move out of the USA.
* Or even, change continents! :)

It's never been this high on anything I've gotten before it's messed up lol. Got another card to get the game and it was 6.60 in taxes alone for a 59.99 purchase. Last full price game I got not too long ago I don't think it was even half that cost in taxes

Originally posted by Gamerdude535:

It's never been this high on anything I've gotten before it's messed up lol. Got another card to get the game and it was 6.60 in taxes alone for a 59.99 purchase. Last full price game I got not too long ago I don't think it was even half that cost in taxes

You can view old purchases and it will give you the same breakdown for price+tax.

Originally posted by Gamerdude535:

It's never been this high on anything I've gotten before it's messed up lol. Got another card to get the game and it was 6.60 in taxes alone for a 59.99 purchase. Last full price game I got not too long ago I don't think it was even half that cost in taxes

I think it would have been pretty big in the news there, if your state had doubled their sales tax.


. . . hmm, according to Google, the state sales tax is only 6.25%, but . . .

However, local taxes imposed by municipalities, counties, and special districts can raise the combined rate to as high as 11%. The total sales tax rate you pay depends on the specific location where the purchase is made

Whee, sounds fun. Now I'm definitely happier to just have state + county.



(hmm, looking back through my purchase history, looks like Steam started taking sales tax in 2019. All my 2018 purchases are even numbers like 39.99.)