I need your help, I'm buying halflife 2 through steam.

[Kitfox]

I am Canadian. And am gonna be using a Canadian credit card. Unfortunatly I am confused about tax. Steam says + Tax. Would that be Canadian Tax or US tax or wut??? please help as fast as possible.

 

[v1p3r]

Try buying the game, I think it shows whatyou'll pay before it sends the payment.

Stick the grand total into xe.com to convert it to $CAD

 

[Sean]

I think it uses whatever tax laws appy in your area. I know things are always more expensive to buy online here in Washington state, anyway.

EDIT: WA has a really f00king huge sales tax. I ended up paying something like 10 to 15 bucks more for the gold edition than a friend of mine in Oregon.

 

[Kitfox]

I need to be sure though.

 

[Sean]

It calculates the total cost before you confirm the order.

 

[Kitfox]

I'm getting siver and the cost i get is this
72.0124 <-- in CAD
10.80186 <--- Canadian tax on that
82.81426 <--- total cost

 

[Kitfox]

i'm geussing no one knows?

 

[Seeky]

You are paying a Canadian tax, 10 dollars of tax is nearly 15% tax on a $70 payment.

 

[Diazo]

It's Canadian

That $82 would be canadian dollars.

They wouldn't show you the game's price in canadaian and then show you the taxes is $US dollars.

And steam does do taxes correctly by region, as Sean's post proves.

Either way, just start the order, it will give you a Total Price (Game + Tax) and ask you to confirm before it actually charges you credit card.

Diazo

 

[filipeg165]

ok uhm, I'm buying hl2 bronze and I live in Brazil, anyone bought it from Brazil? cuz I really need to know the tax amount...

 

[ChrisArt]

lol this treadh is to funny

 

[filipeg165]

well, i guess i'll just have to wait til next weekend and buy the game at the store, plus, i'll save 20 bucks!!! cuz games here are all 35 bucks, no matter what

 

[Sean]

well, i guess i'll just have to wait til next weekend and buy the game at the store, plus, i'll save 20 bucks!!! cuz games here are all 35 bucks, no matter what

It tells you how much it costs before it charges you - just check it out.

BTW, Steam is designed specifically to distribute games on a world-wide basis. I think they sort of have a general idea about what's going on.