Originally Posted by t325

While I agree that it would be nice to have the price advertised is the price you pay, that would be an absolute nightmare since every jurisdiction has its own sales tax rate - there are thousands of different rates across the country. So if taxes were included in the advertised price, a company could never advertise that a product costs $X.YZ in a commercial or print ad since the cost of the product could be different in two stores across the street from each other if that street is the boundary line between two municipalities.