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Same in UK.

As a kid, having grown up in the UK I knew that if the price label said £1.99 and I had £2 in my pocket I could afford it, with £0.01 change. First time I went to the USA as a young teenager I remember being quite embarrassed when the thing I thought I was getting for $1.99 was actually not $1.99 but $2.17 or whatever, and I had to leave without buying. Felt quite deceptive and totally incomprehensible.

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> Felt quite deceptive and totally incomprehensible.

In the case of sales tax, it's deliberate propaganda. "Here's what we would have charged you if it weren't for greedy old Uncle Sam."

Propaganda? How is telling where your money is going is propaganda?

They can tell you where your money is going and also make the tax-included price the most prominent price on signs and tags.

Maybe.. also, tax changes from state to state and city to city and item to item. really like seeing tax explicitly shown in my receipt even though it is inconvenient sometimes.

In the UK on the receipt from most stores you get an itemisation of which items are liable to sales tax (some things are not taxed), at which rates (there are lower rates for some things), and how much of your total bill was to tax. E.g. https://smallbusinessowneradvice.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20...

All the while the prices you see as a shopper are inclusive.

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