What exactly is Sales Tax? [No confusion, anymore]

Kaustubh Katdare

Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk Oct 23, 2024
CEans,

The purpose behind starting CE -Finance was very simple. Engineers should have a place where they can talk about finance and benefit from it.

I've realized that most of us do not understand the term 'sales tax'.

While wikipedia says -

A sales tax is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_tax" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Consumption Tax</a> charged at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_purchase" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Point Of Purchase</a> for certain goods and services
what do you have to say about sales tax.

addendum: The reason I'm posting it because I saw two of my friends debating over a lame issue : Whether we should ask for the bill at Petrol Pumps? Got my point?

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  • ckll

    ckll

    @ckll-N2OG7n May 5, 2008

    hiiiiiiii the big k
    i hve some knowledge about sales tax that i'm going to share wid u
    SALES TAX IS PAID BY THE RETAILER FOR WAT THE ITEMS HE SOLD
    THIS TAX WILL GO IN NATIONAL TREASURE
    THIS TAX IS NECESSARY TO CONTROL THE REATAILER FROM GETTING
    BLACK MONEY
    i can tell u more bt not this time .....
    i dont have enough time