Sales Tax Tokens: The Trouble With Tiny Taxes
August 8, 2025
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For most of America’s history there were no sales taxes. It was the economic crises of the twentieth century that led to the wide establishment of them. But that created a problem: on very small purchases of less than a dollar, even a single penny would technically be overpayment.
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