• itisileclerk@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    That is $6 trillion from new tax called “Import tariff”. Retail Price = Purchase Price + Transport Costs + Tariff + Profit Margin + Sale Tax

    • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      That’s quite inaccurate. Many of these taxes are not additive but multiplicative:

      Retail price = ((Purchase price + international transport costs) * tariff + national transport cost) * profit margin * sale tax

      In other words, it’s even worse than you wrote.

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        3 days ago

        I tryed to be as simple as possible assuming that calculations were made separatly in different functions (programmer here). Anyway, tariff is a tax collected by custom office, payed by importer, included in final price that customer pays for the product.