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Old January 23rd 12, 03:06 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
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Default Stating prices at retail inclusive of taxes (was: E-ZPass, was CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?))

In message , at 14:16:04 on Mon, 23 Jan
2012, Adam H. Kerman remarked:

As sales taxes are a type of excise tax


Excise taxes are usually "per quantity", such as "per gallon of
gasoline", "per packet of cigarettes"; whereas a sales tax is a
percentage of the sale price.
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Roland Perry