TAX?

[Finn]

Been awhile since i bought anything from steam. bought a dlc for ATS And saw a 74cent tax charge?? since when did steam start adding taxes?

[Paratech2008]

When the Supreme Court in the US ruled/decided States had the right to demand taxes,

[Falsus Te Deum]

If in Us, several states have imposed tax on digital goods.

[Finn]

Lame.. Gone the days where we could pay exact price of 3.99 lol

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Finn:

Lame.. Gone the days where we could pay exact price of 3.99 lol

You can come here to Germany for that, our tax has to be included in the shown price by law.
So if you see something for 3,99 its already including tax. :P

[Count_Dandyman]

Originally posted by Finn:

Lame.. Gone the days where we could pay exact price of 3.99 lol

Of course I'm sure during those days you declared that purchase and paid the relevant taxes on it later as you were supposed to and weren't one of the many people evading the taxes that are the reason why the laws were changed.

[Finn]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by Finn:

Lame.. Gone the days where we could pay exact price of 3.99 lol

You can come here to Germany for that, our tax has to be included in the shown price by law.
So if you see something for 3,99 its already including tax. :P

lucky bastards lmao XD

[Finn]

Originally posted by Count_Dandyman:

Originally posted by Finn:

Lame.. Gone the days where we could pay exact price of 3.99 lol

Of course I'm sure during those days you declared that purchase and paid the relevant taxes on it later as you were supposed to and weren't one of the many people evading the taxes that are the reason why the laws were changed.

なに！？

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/06/26/dissecting-supreme-courts-internet-sales-tax-decision/#e3e12e03fbee

Some started Oct 1st.

[Zaskar]

Originally posted by Finn:

Lame.. Gone the days where we could pay exact price of 3.99 lol

Yeah, Europe is better for that. Here in North America(It goes for US and Canada), they're not required to include the taxes in the displayed price. It makes products look cheaper than they really are.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Zaskar:

Originally posted by Finn:

Lame.. Gone the days where we could pay exact price of 3.99 lol

Yeah, Europe is better for that. Here in North America(It goes for US and Canada), they're not required to include the taxes in the displayed price. It makes products look cheaper than they really are.

Well for people who've been seeing taxes added at checkout for their entire lives it's not really a problem, or an issue, or a surprise. Of course the exception being because sales taxes largely haven't been collected for decades now people are going to be all discombobulated, as evidenced by the weekly "WTF! Taxes?" posts.

Originally posted by Finn:

Originally posted by Count_Dandyman:

Originally posted by Finn:

Lame.. Gone the days where we could pay exact price of 3.99 lol

Of course I'm sure during those days you declared that purchase and paid the relevant taxes on it later as you were supposed to and weren't one of the many people evading the taxes that are the reason why the laws were changed.

なに！？

It was called "use tax" most states had it. Basically on the honor system, you were supposed to pay sales tax on out of state purchases, which includes online purchases that would otherwise be taxed if you bought it locally or the website had some sort of physical presence in the state. Problem is is something like 98% of consumers never paid use tax, and haven't been for 25 years. So yeah it's lame the tax avoidance loophole was closed, but on the upside no real risk that our respective state governments are going to come after individuals for back sales tax. So overall most of us come out ahead, crime does pay, yadda yadda.

And to all the younglings who didn't really get to enjoy decades of avoiding sales taxes, well you should have been born sooner. Although upside you didn't have to play Counter-Strike 1.0 on 56k either. I would have gladly paid a pittance in sales taxes for 75mbps in the year 2000.

[Chompman]

Originally posted by Glenn37216:

Try to find your DLC on 3rd party sites that have discounted prices. G2A ...cdkeys
com etc. since steam started chargimg TN taxes ive bought nothing from their store but yet my game collection continues to grow. :)

Careful as buying dlcs from sites may not work with the steam version plus not all 3rd party sites are trustworthy and once again it's not steam causing this but the government and legally they would all be required to charge it.

There is a reason some sites get censored like that.

[Glenn37216]

Originally posted by Chompman:

Originally posted by Glenn37216:

Try to find your DLC on 3rd party sites that have discounted prices. G2A ...cdkeys
com etc. since steam started chargimg TN taxes ive bought nothing from their store but yet my game collection continues to grow. :)

Careful as buying dlcs from sites may not work with the steam version plus not all 3rd party sites are trustworthy and once again it's not steam causing this but the government and legally they would all be required to charge it.

There is a reason some sites get censored like that.

LOOK AT MY GAME COLLECTION ..... Ive bought 98% of it through third party sites... not on steam store. I have not had one issue with third party sites. some do charge taxes but the discount is so low compared to steam who the he ll cares ? Literally ....no one should buy from the steam store .... because every game listed can be bought elsewhere at upwards of 90% off their prices. steam "mark up" is for their own profit and is what your paying for.... not the actual developers price. Which is why some games on steam store is higher priced than what is listed on the game developers own store.

[Chompman]

Originally posted by Glenn37216:

Originally posted by Chompman:

Careful as buying dlcs from sites may not work with the steam version plus not all 3rd party sites are trustworthy and once again it's not steam causing this but the government and legally they would all be required to charge it.

There is a reason some sites get censored like that.

LOOK AT MY GAME COLLECTION ..... Ive bought 98% of it through third party sites... not on steam store. I have not had one issue with third party sites. some do charge taxes but the discount is so low compared to steam who the he ll cares ? Literally ....no one should buy from the steam store .... because every game listed can be bought elsewhere at upwards of 90% off their prices. steams "mark up" is what your paying for.... not the actual developers price.

The main reason you can get games cheaper on some of those sites is either they are stolen cd codes or they were abused with regional prices.

Some are so bad that the game devs have even said they would you rather steal their game then buy it on certain sties because of it.

[Zaskar]

Originally posted by Glenn37216:

Originally posted by Chompman:

Careful as buying dlcs from sites may not work with the steam version plus not all 3rd party sites are trustworthy and once again it's not steam causing this but the government and legally they would all be required to charge it.

There is a reason some sites get censored like that.

LOOK AT MY GAME COLLECTION ..... Ive bought 98% of it through third party sites... not on steam store. I have not had one issue with third party sites. some do charge taxes but the discount is so low compared to steam who the he ll cares ? Literally ....no one should buy from the steam store .... because every game listed can be bought elsewhere at upwards of 90% off their prices. steam "mark up" is for their own profit and is what your paying for.... not the actual developers price. Which is why some games on steam store is higher priced than what is listed on the game developers own store.

Oh wow, such misinformations. First, Valve don't set ANY price(excepting for their own games) for games, publisher/developpers sets it. Also, those re-seller can afford setting the price this low because first, they give absolutely nothing to the developpers or the publishers and those keys are often obtained through shady means.

Tbh, you might as well pirate your games. It would not hurt the developpers/publishers more than what you're doing and it would be free for you. What you basically doing is pirating games but paying for it.

[8ullfrog]

Finn, you were supposed to be cutting the government a check for those taxes. They just realized that no one was cutting the checks.

I still think digital distro taxes are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but nobody asked me.