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Old Jan 27, 2005, 1:47 pm
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Originally Posted by bigjim
I must side with Delta on this one. If you go to the grocery store (in a state that charges say a 10% sales tax on groceries) and buy a coke for $1.00. I don't think that the store can waive the $.10. Why would they want to lower their price so that the tax is included?

I realize that it seems a bit absurd on the surface - but I imagine that it is a lot simpler to collect the $.10 instead of trying to find a way to adjust the fare basis in order to pay the appropriate tax to the government.

IMHO, I think that Delta deserves a break on this one.
Waving the 10% sales tax is not the issue. The issue is doing a charge card transaction for 10c when it will cost DL more then that to process the request. Now, if you did not open the soda and brought it back and wanted a larger soda, and the merchant said the price difference is 10c and you wanted to pay with a credit card for the 10c, then the cost would be more then 10c to the merchant.
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