You are supposed to report this on your tax return and pay taxes for it then. Depends on the seller btw. Amazon now charges sales tax across state lines.
And those taxes can vary from one county to the next, even within the same state. There can be a âsales taxâ plus âfood and beverage taxâ plus âentertainment taxâ, etc. And then a hotel can have some combination of these aforementioned, plus âhospitality taxâ. A least for us foreign visitors to EU countries, weâre able to reclaim our VAT at the airport as weâre returning home.
Thats only if the price in euro excludes VAT. And to my knowledge the euro prices are including VAT. If I buy it as normal person I pay 779, nothing more nothing less.
Not all Americans are greedy and selfish but I have a hard time remembering that sometimes. Even harder lately with the state of things here. Regardless, no tax on my Digitone from Sweden! Weâll see how much I want to support our government come tax time 
California cost of living doesnât help either with $300 water and sewage, $400 electric, and $3300 a month rent I donât know how I do it.
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measly 5.6% where I live 
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Where do you live to have such low tax?
Milwaukee, WI. And actually, sales is tax is by county here, so itâs even lower (5.1%) in the next county over. Which is where my go-to music store is! That said, property tax here is higher than $%&@
Ahhh, I worked overseas with a Sheriif from Milwaukee, and quite a few others in the US from that region, some real characters. Quite mad infact
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Not sure if itâs NL or EU law but over here itâs illegal to advertise consumer prices that donât include all taxes etc.
In the U.S. Pretty much everything is advertised with no tax.
my guess. in the USA you have all without vat due for customers to comapre prices via differnet states . In the EU it is different from country to country. In Germany you put prices for companies without vat and to customers with vat.
Yaâll donât know how good you have itâŚ
Here is a price comparison, I live in Iceland.
Korg Ms-20 mini Juno.co.uk âŹ423
Korg M2-20 mini Iceland âŹ795
I gotta get the hell outta here 
You live in a very pretty country, stay there 
Just order from Juno, they usually include free FedEX/DHL within the EU. If they donât, ask on the live chat. Or maybe try Gear4Music or Bax or Thomann. Theyâre all pretty big players, will match prices and give you extras if you ask them nicely 
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Thanks
Ah I order everything from abroad mostly from Juno cause their prices are great, Iceland is not in the Eu so we have to pay for postage but we get -VAT that makes up it.
Oh right! 
No VAT sure makes up for that!
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Itâs weird. Technically I believe if you go to another state to make a big purchase at a cheaper tax rate you are supposed to make it up when you file yearly taxes with the state. A few states (Oregon is one I believe) donât have sales tax. Other things that are strange is sometime you will have to pay full tax on an item you are getting for sale. This is done especially with cellphones deals through phone companies. A phone will be advertised at a lower price but then when tax is applied they take the original price apply the tax rate and add that to the total. This is even done with âfreeâ phones.
Imo, not adding tax to list prices in the U.S. Is more of a psychological goad to get people to purchase things, open short lines of credit, etc.
Taxes? 
Oh my, something must be wrongâŚ
Iâd check test mode, maybe do an empty resetâŚ
Make sure all lfo depths are at 0, etc⌠
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At least you guys in Europe get health care and real social services in return for your taxes. We pay taxes and get so little from it. Iâd pay 20% VAT in heartbeat for a European way of life (health care, low crime, more humane justice system, etc.). I donât think people overseas really understand how financially crippling the American health care system has become. Most employees with employer-sponsored health insurance have high deductibles and high premiums nowadays. At least in the old days a worker could say, âyeah we donât have universal health care but we get it free on the job.â
Btw, I totally get people who are against higher taxes. Giving my money to an unmotivated government bureaucrat to decide what best to do with it doesnât exactly inspire confidence. However, there is theory and there is practice. And it seems to me that the European approach works so much better. And the relatives that I have that live in France, Switzerland, and Germany agree whenever I ask them.
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Digitax!
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