Originally Posted by
jwhite4
So what's the difference between requiring health care payment for workers, or social security tax? Should there now be a visible 6.25% (?) SS tax added to all checks because employers need to pay that for all employees? Every bill I've every seen lists city & state (were applicable) sales tax, but I've never seen a listing for business tax, real estate tax, insurance (also required by law, but still the business's obligation). There are also probably annual licenses that need to be renewed, 'mandated' by a gov't agency (local, state, federal) but almost certainly unfunded by the gov't.
It's usually written into the applicable tax code whether the tax must be listed separately. For example, the state rental car tax as well as the $4.81-per-day Consolidated Facility Charge are actually codified in Alaska state statutes that they must be itemized separately on customer's bills (the state put the money up for the new rental car facility in ANC). On the other hand, the 11.11% concession recovery fee that covers the 10% airport concession fee the airport imposes on its concessionaires (including rental car companies) is not required to be itemized separately, though it is universally imposed by all airport rental agencies in ANC (whoever didn't list it would be at a disadvantage when customers check rates, because they'd have to charge a higher daily rate to get the same income and customers would be turned off by such). But be careful when arguing that fees shouldn't be listed separately, as in many cases, laws, statutes, codes, and even lease agreements can stipulate they must be.