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Is a sales purchase taxed on the total of all items or each item?
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∙ 13y ago
Tax is on each item, although it usually (see bottom for exception) doesn't matter because of the distributive property of multiplication. For example, if you bought a rubber duck for 3 dollars, a bottle of shampoo for 5 dollars, and a bathtub for 500 dollars, and tax was 8.1 percent it the total would be the same either way. Here's the math:
1.081(3)+1.081(5)+1.081(500)=1.081(508)
3.243+5.405+540.5=549.148
549.148 = 549.148
One exception: If the items have different taxes on them (for example, if you bought prepared food as well as retail items), it would matter because they couldn't be taxed altogether. This is why items are TECHNICALLY taxed separately; however, most of the time a cash register or the bill will show the tax being applied at the end, since most of the time all items have the same tax on them.
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