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meanwhile the rest of the planet has their tax included in the store price.
And honestly for as long at the Internet has been around and for as long as governments have been fretting over sales taxes not being collected I'm honestly shocked it took as long as it did to enforce collection.
Regardless that tax avoidance was always going to end.
What bothers me is steam didn't even give a notice that this was going to happen, which would have been a nice thing to do for their poutine eating customers. The rock i live under doesn't seem to get news about all the laws being passed that might affect me =(
And that changed, for the same reasons multiple states and countries changed their laws. More and more revenue being funneled toward purchases where sales tax wasn't being collected, which no matter how you want to slice it means potential tax revenue being left on the table.
Internet businesses were benefiting from a system that wasn't designed to deal with the realities of online sales. And that status quo of only collecting taxes under very specific circumstances wasn't going to be permanent. Again, wishful thinking if you thought it was.
I disagree that it's Valve's job to keep you informed about your country's laws.
Assuming Steam isn't the only online store you shop at, for perspective, how many of the ones do you use informed you about Canadian Sales tax collection?
They didn't warn US users when their states laws went into effect imposing the new digital sales tax. There were dozens of threads spread out over about a year from users in selected states because some went into effect during different months.
It wasn't Valve's responsibility to issue a PSA.
Well government is not exactly very intelligent in regard to the internet. A lot of them still use WindowsXP as well, so that should be fairly telling as well of their knowledge level about the internet other than social media. Once however, they see another point of taxation - then they like to move quickly.
I think it's more telling about budgets and management, which whether in government or private business isn't really concerned about legacy systems or software until something is on fire. I mean if you've only ever worked IT at businesses that had zero legacy systems or hardware bully for you. I'd say you've had very few jobs, very limited experience, or have been obscenely fortunate in employers, or maybe just fortunate to not have to work on the legacy systems.
Staying current and cutting edge sounds great (I'm for it), lots of tax payers and politicians have opinions about how money ought to be spent though. And you can put off investing in something one day at a time for a long time in reality. After all what day is a good day to spend millions of dollars on infrastructure upgrades?
IE the people with strong opinions about technology often aren't in charge of the budget.
Except for the fact that not everywhere is the same; a lot of places ive worked at had equipment falling apart or barely functioning from the very early 2000s, and budget was not an issue whatsoever in it. People just didn't want to move to the newer stuff, legacy is definitely what was the most popular as the new stuff was 'too complicated' for the people to switch. Else, in some cases proper management of using older equipment sitting around doing nothing, but they have plenty of budget. Seen many DMV places use windows XP and older systems, even for new branches.
In many cases, the government is unaccounted spending on infrastructure, in other cases they blatantly spend on one thing, and neglect another. I visited a state not long ago, and their capital had a freeway completely in disrepair that it had to be neglected for years, down to the actual dirt beneath the asphalt, yet they've spent on completely optional meaningless things through a majority of the year. Another state I went to was recently repaving roads in a perfect condition, due to failure to oversee projects and just pay a bill without question due to being a contracted team.
Government isn't exactly efficient or wise in many cases, and often in many places the lack of upgrades is due to an aged workforce.
Which is why experienced IT people like to keep email printouts/digital copies and personal logs, should they be ignored and blamed for failures. Seen a fair amount of stories where people were fired for not listening to IT about replacing failing equipment, only because IT had their own records of being ignored for months to years and the critical failure(s) cause more loss than the cost of replacing, especially due to having to wait for it all to arrive after the fact.
Welcome to government intervention in economy
Sounds like you are asking for an account lock for fraud. I advise against it.
It's not against the rules to buy games from official online stores, I checked and some of them don't the have this tax (yet). So I'll be buying from them.