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The FTC wants to ban hidden 'junk fees' that jack up the price of your purchases (www.engadget.com)

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The FTC wants to ban hidden 'junk fees' that jack up the price of your purchases::A new rule proposed by the FTC targets hidden and "bogus" fees businesses often add onto their services at checkout, aiming to do away with the deceptive practices.

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[-] Sovereign_13@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago

The kicker is we already do the “price at point of sale including taxes” thing at gas stations. If it’s $3.09 or whatever per gallon, that’s including state and federal sales tax.

We already see the line item thing on most receipts anyway. We basically do everything except roll the sales tax into the sticker price.

[-] Yuki@kutsuya.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Only 3.09 per gallon? We pay 2 per litre!

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