<story><title>Bill to ban hidden fees in California signed into law</title><url>https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta%E2%80%99s-sponsored-bill-ban-hidden-fees-california-signed-law</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>I never understand this argument at all. Your shops have computers with label printers, right?&lt;p&gt;At the Co-op supermarket in our little UK town (population 3000) they’ve even just replaced the shelf price tickets with tiny colour displays.</text></item><item><author>xmprt</author><text>Taxes are set at a multiple levels (federal, state, district, and city) so it&amp;#x27;s pretty much impossible to show the post tax price on the label. Hidden fees are a completely different issue.</text></item><item><author>adasdasdas</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know why we can&amp;#x27;t just force everyone to show post tax&amp;#x2F;fees price upfront. It&amp;#x27;s complete bullshit that every restaurant bill comes with 3 different taxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcrosby95</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not really a problem in brick and mortar stores.  It&amp;#x27;s a problem in online stores because you can&amp;#x27;t necessarily give someone the right price with taxes until you have their address.&lt;p&gt;And this problem is harder than some might think.  I knew someone who lived on a street that was a &amp;quot;dividing line&amp;quot; for this stuff: same zip code, same city, but one side had a 9% sales tax, the other side had around 7%.  We tested a lot of online stores and none of them got it right.  Including Amazon.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bill to ban hidden fees in California signed into law</title><url>https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta%E2%80%99s-sponsored-bill-ban-hidden-fees-california-signed-law</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>I never understand this argument at all. Your shops have computers with label printers, right?&lt;p&gt;At the Co-op supermarket in our little UK town (population 3000) they’ve even just replaced the shelf price tickets with tiny colour displays.</text></item><item><author>xmprt</author><text>Taxes are set at a multiple levels (federal, state, district, and city) so it&amp;#x27;s pretty much impossible to show the post tax price on the label. Hidden fees are a completely different issue.</text></item><item><author>adasdasdas</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know why we can&amp;#x27;t just force everyone to show post tax&amp;#x2F;fees price upfront. It&amp;#x27;s complete bullshit that every restaurant bill comes with 3 different taxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olliej</author><text>Yeah, so in the US that doesn&amp;#x27;t work. Most obviously for display, tv, or radio ads you cannot ensure correct taxes in the advertisement (this was a big eye opener when I first moved to the US).&lt;p&gt;It also doesn&amp;#x27;t work for online sales, where the final price can depend on the final destination of the goods or service. e.g. the taxes &lt;i&gt;cannot&lt;/i&gt; be displayed until you&amp;#x27;ve been given a street level address.&lt;p&gt;For me for example even my zip code spans 3 different cities with different tax codes, my street is literally one block from a different city in one direction, and about 5 blocks to another. \o&amp;#x2F;</text></comment>