• hdsrob@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I write POS software, and have written tax calculations that cover about 30 states, and several CA provinces.

    While we do have to round (always up) when calculating sales tax, there’s no way for the business to figure out how much that rounding would be, since it’s just added to the tax collected.

    And in all states that I’ve worked with, a business has to pay what they collected (even if they over collect), and can’t just calculate a percentage of total sales (since many states have tax tables, rounding rules, or 3-4 decimal tax rates, and not a flat percentage tax).

    So it’s actually the government that gets the benefit of the rounding.

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        13 days ago

        You were right about the rounding / keeping the extra … it’s just someone different keeping the extra money.