Are they suppose to tax free Pizza?

[TheKlown]

I was at the Pizza Shop today and picked up a free Large Pizza with all the coupons we have saved up for that Pizza Shop. They give me the Pizza and didn't ask for any taxes. I'm not complaining. I just thought even free stuff is taxed because our government is cheap and thinks everything should be taxed. Did I get lucky? Did someone mess up? Or is free stuff with coupons usually free? I didn't get anything else, because I'm pretty broke and I was feeling Italian Pizza. (Yum)

I felt like a cheapskate, but yeah it is what is when you have not much money.

[ButtHoleLogic]

How can they charge sales tax if a sale is not made? You are making no sense.

[Ragnarokia]

Ah America, the country where they can't learn to shove anything into a single price.

[TheKlown]

At 1/18/13 10:39 PM, ButtHoleLogic wrote: How can they charge sales tax if a sale is not made? You are making no sense.

Easily, they could charge what a Normal Pain Pizza cost and add the tax to that which is about what 12-13 bucks plus tax so it comes to around $1.60 or $1.40? In my state there's 7 cents sales tax on most items.

[ButtHoleLogic]

At 1/18/13 10:44 PM, TheKlown wrote:

At 1/18/13 10:39 PM, ButtHoleLogic wrote: How can they charge sales tax if a sale is not made? You are making no sense.

Easily, they could charge what a Normal Pain Pizza cost and add the tax to that which is about what 12-13 bucks plus tax so it comes to around $1.60 or $1.40? In my state there's 7 cents sales tax on most items.

No. It's called sales tax because it's "a tax paid to a governing body by a seller for the sales of certain goods and services. Usually laws allow (or require) the seller to collect funds for the tax from the consumer at the point of purchase."

A sale was not made. You got a free pizza. No sales tax. Use your head.

[Jeffyx]

I'm pretty sure that they are supposed to tax it. I had 5 coupons I saved up for free Monsters, and I had to pay 12 cents for each of them. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining or anything, I'm just saying. Hell, whenever I have money, I end up being too generous with it, and end up with nothing left.

[T3XT]

It's relative to price, and considering there was none I would take it that there's nothing to tax.

[Squidbit]

At 1/19/13 02:14 AM, TNT wrote: $0.00 x 8.25% (Texas sales tax) = $0.00.

This. How the fuck would they tax something that's free?

[DarkMatter]

The IRS knows...

They'll be breaking into your house, spray painting your dog, and planting bugs in your shoes before you know it.