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How does a $3.99 canned food item come out to $4.45 in California? (yiffit.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There's no sales tax on unprepared food in this state (I'm also paying by EBT with food stamps) and the CRV for the can is only $0.05. where the fuck is the other 41 cents coming from? 😬

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Without showing your receipt, we can't know. I'm not from CA but that's damn near 10%, so I'd wager the store has incorrectly applied the CA+LA sales tax of 9.5% to your purchase.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I didn't get a receipt. I just went somewhere else that didn't try and add the sales tax to things that shouldn't. Ironically, I only went into the first place because it should have been cheaper.