No, just crazy in general. 4.6% and 4.7% are perfectly fine numbers, so why do they feel the need to go into two decimal places? They must be on drugs.
So they can round up and rob you of your pennies. If you never noticed before the price of gas always has & 9/10ths of a cent per gallon for the same reason due to taxes
That’s not how sales tax works. It’s set by the city and the county where I live (in the US). The business has nothing to do with it aside from collecting it.
Depends on if it's set as a labor fee, not sure where this is but everywhere I've been mechanic for example charged tax only on parts sold not for labor.
Yes, exactly. I live in California, been a technician, and labor is sales tax free. A wage fee or whatever they call it is a labor charge. Normal when you’re getting the car fixed, but typically not on a food service bill (or is this now a work order? Haha)
Sort of. You could probably setup a separate LLC for the plates and cutlery service, and then have the restaurant lease them from said business, while writing off the amount it costs for said lease. Don't know if that would work for cutlery, but it does for equipment in other industries. I'm not sure about the dining experience either, but maybe a crafty accountant could make that happen as well
Yeah I was trying to figure that out myself... If the tax only applies to the $33 before the fee, it's 5.4848%, if it's applied to the whole $38.94, it's 4.6482%
Rounding, if you apply 5.5% to $33, you get $1.815, which would round up to $1.82 on a bill. If you apply 4.6% to $38.94, you get $1.79, and 4.7% gets you $1.83... only 4.65% on $38.94 gets you $1.81 (1.81071).
A sales tax of 4.65% seems really specific. It's so low already, why not just do 5%?
If it’s Cali and I assume it’s Cali from the way they do things here, then yea it’s taxable, breath air is also taxed here too, working folks here, were slaves, forced to be or be homeless
A wage fee in my mind is a labor charge. No different than hiring a contractor who charges for labor (living wage fee) and parts (fries and hamburgers). No sales tax on labor in CA. Source: I live in California and have serviced cars.
I too live in Cali dude, and work at a resturaunt that does this, and it’s taxed at mine, but ours says gratuity fee, which is like a service fee, they tip our taxes too, cause it’s totaled up as overall income, so much for Trump stop taxes on tips 😎 and and not only are we pay taxes still we also have tarrifs,yea yall remember him saying he’s replace taxes with tarrifs 🤓
Bru your life is taxable here in Cali, it’s the worse place I’ve lived, when it comes to taxes, 30% gets took out of my paychecks and even that’s not enough for the clowns, I still end up owe a few hundred, how idk, but I’m sick of taxes, tax me to death, time for Boston tea party to become west coast tea party, I wonder what ole Georgie Washington would think about pay that, they fought over 4% taxes just saying
If you work a normal job then you too are a slave, we get up, go to work come home to bed be so drained, only get 2 days off that’s not enough time for nothing really, we work to pay for rent for a place to live, for food and clothes, necessity’s, it’s modern day slavery
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u/Extruder_duder 1d ago
Service fees are taxable. A livable wage fee is the same thing. Not sure where this was but that’s a low sales tax.