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This explanation doesn't make any sense to me. The business model of stores buying gold is to pay below the market price. If their nominal price+taxes paid to the seller ends up higher than the above the market price, the business isn't profitable, and they'd stop buying.

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They can claim the tax back from the government when they sell it.

Could the gov tell there’s a discrepancy in taxes paid and taxes reimbursed?

Right, the stores would actually pay a little less than market value+tax on any "presumed used" gold.

Charging taxes on a consumer resale is hard and unpopular as it is double taxation, the only example I can think of is weird places with house sale stamp taxes and such.

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